Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To emit the deep, bellowing sound made by a cow; low.
- n. The lowing of a cow or a similar sound.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To utter the characteristic cry of a cow; low.
- To make a noise like lowing.
- n. The low of a cow; the act of lowing.
- An obsolete form of mo.
Wiktionary
- n. onomatopoeia The characteristic sound made by a cow or bull.
- n. UK, slang, mildly derogatory A foolish woman.
- v. intransitive Of a cow or bull, to make its characteristic lowing sound.
- interj. The characteristic sound made by a cow or bull.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. obsolete See Mo.
- v. To make the noise of a cow; to low; -- a child's word.
- n. The lowing of a cow.
WordNet 3.0
- v. make a low noise, characteristic of bovines
- n. the sound made by a cow or bull
Etymologies
- Imitative. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Well, as I discovered with the first bite, a moo is nothing more than a giant radish.”
“In the Name of the King" - deesh fakkin moo-vee sawks sheet!”
“The nickname moo was allotted to me by a previous boyfriend of my mothers who liked alliteration.”
“E bontsha ka moo tulo tse lokelang ho patala "Rateable Properties" di lokelwang ho kolokiswa ho "Roll" (Listed on the Roll) le dintlha tse amanang le ditulo tseo le beng ba tsona.”
SPEECH BY MR S MSHUDULU, ANC MP DURING THE PROPERTY RATES BILL DEBATE
“Alaila, o ka pule ka oukou i ke Akua ia Lanipipili, nana ae oukou i ka ohu a i hina i kai nei, ua lanakila ka moo; aka hoi, i pii ka ohu i luna a hina i luna o ke kuahiwi, alaila, ua hee ka moo; o ko kakou lanakila no hoi ia.”
“Ia manawa, hanu ae la ka moo ka hookalakupua hoi o Paliuli, a ike aku la ia Kalahumoku i ke aiwaiwa o Tahiti, ia manawa, wehe ae la ua moo nei i kona a luna e hoouka no ke kaua me Kalahumoku.”
“Aiwohikupua ia Ulili laua me Akikeehiale, i mau elele na laua e hai mai ka hana a ka moo me ka Ilio.”
“Manao iho la ka moo he luku keia, aia nae e oniu ana o Kaeloikamalama i ka laau palau i ka welau o kona lima.”
“A lohe aku la lakou ia Ulili ma i keia kaua a ka moo me ka ilio, a he mea mau nae ia Aiwohikupua ma ka nana ia uka.”
“E bontsha ka moo "Supplementary Valuation Roll" e etsoang ka teng. e.g. ka morao ha "Valuation Roll" e entsoe, ho etsahale hore hobe le ditulo tse neng di sa kenyelletswa ka phoso, kapa tse qalang ho kenyelletswa, kapa tse neng di sa kengwa ka molao, ho hlokahala hore di kenyelletswe, kapa tseo ho hlokahalang hore di yelletswe ka morao ha diqeto tsa Minister, di lokela ho hlahela ho "Supplementary Valuation Roll" e updatang "Original Valuation Roll”
SPEECH BY MR S MSHUDULU, ANC MP DURING THE PROPERTY RATES BILL DEBATE
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘moo’.
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Cattle
cattle, cow, beef, steer, heifer, calf, bull, cattle call, Black Angus, Hereford, Holstein, Dwarf Lulu and 402 more...
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Onomatopoetic
words (seemingly) formed in imitation of a natural sound
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Sounds
words that describe sound
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onomatopoeias (1 syllable)
1 syllable words that mean what they sound like.
(dictionaried or un-dictionaried words | onomatopoeic in nature)
onomatopoeias (2 syllable) | onomatopoeias (3+ syllables)
gush, buzz, pop, woof, boo, bam, bang, bash, bump, clang, clap, click and 102 more...
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El perro hace guau guau
Animal sounds in different languages, and the verbs that specify them.
Since Georgetown took down their page, the current definitive website for this information is:
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sound (quiet)
words for quiet sounds
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• Words I often hear at my workplace
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Add a word you hear at your workplace, and increase the mistery.
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3-letter Scrabble Words
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Animal voices
wuff, snort, chirp, baa, moo, meow, oink, bark, woof, grr, purr, hiss and 24 more...
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Two years
Okay, I admit it. I made a list of words my daughter knew when she was two years old.
bat, baba, a, abalone, about, acorn, adrienne, after, again, airplane, alison, all and 694 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, M
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Animal Onomatopoeia
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andrewa121's Words
moo, omphaloskepsis, pastiche, gazebo, implicature, spoon, clitic, dromiceiomimus, funicular, palimpsest, phillipic, moribund and 2 more...
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The Letter M
This video comes straight from the Uncanny Valley with a tribute to the 13th letter of the alphabet.
marvelous, magnificent, impossible, improbable, m and ms, mississippi, maybe, mommy, monkey, moo, mayonnaise, medicine and 6 more...
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Animal Sounds
with sound effects.
screech, hiss, growl, hum, buzz, chirrup, chirp, tweet, birdsong, whistle, bleat, meow and 30 more...
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