moo

Onomatopoeic.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /muː/
• (US) IPA^(key): /mu/

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• Rhymes: -uː
• Homophone: mu

moo (plural moos)

1. (onomatopoeia) The characteristic lowing sound made by cattle.
2. (UK, slang, mildly derogatory) A foolish woman.

   You silly moo! What did you do that for?

   • 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:

     'Aurora House does not expel,' said the sanctimonious moo, 'but you will be medicated, if your behaviour warrants it, for your own protection.'

• moolike

moo (third-person singular simple present moos, present participle mooing, simple past and past participle mooed)

1. (intransitive) Of a cow or bull, to make its characteristic lowing sound.

• low, boo (rare)

moo

1. The characteristic sound made by a cow or bull.

• OOM, omo-, oom

moo

1. river

moo

1. Rōmaji transcription of もお

From Old Irish móu, móo, from Proto-Celtic *māyos, comparative form of *māros, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₁-. Cognate with Scottish Gaelic mò, Irish mó and Welsh mwy.

moo

1. comparative degree of mooar (“big, great, large”)

• smoo

From Proto-Huitoto-Ocaina *mōhō.

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɔː]
• Hyphenation: moo

moo

1. father

• mooma

moo

1. vocative of mooma (“father”)

moo

1. Synonym of mooma (“father”)

• ei

• Shirley Burtch (1983) Diccionario Huitoto Murui (Tomo I) (Linguistica Peruana No. 20)‎ (in Spanish), Yarinacocha, Peru: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 180
• Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.‎, Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 125

• Hyphenation: mo‧o

moo

1. first-person singular present indicative of moer

moo

1. there; distal demonstrative adverb.

moo

1. tree, wood

• Sonya Oskolskaya, Natasha Stoynova, Some Changes in the Noun Paradigm of Ulcha Under the Language Shift, 2017.