Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A long loose dress that hangs free from the shoulders.
Wiktionary
- n. A long loose fitting dress made of lightweight fabric printed with bright, stylized Hawaiian themes (such as flowers and palm branches).
WordNet 3.0
- n. a woman's loose unbelted dress
Etymologies
- Hawaiian muʻumuʻu (Wiktionary)
- Hawaiian mu'umu'u, cut off, muumuu, from reduplication of muku, to cut off. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Until I read the comment from the lady with the Hawaiian grandmother, I did not know it was a Hawaiian word, I just thought a muumuu was a big tent dress you wore when you couldn't fit into other clothes and you just didn't care anymore (this was an impression I had formed as a child) These are some of the prettiest dresses I have ever seen.”
“Perhaps last year's caftan will migrate into a muumuu, which is just a step removed from the house dress.”
“I could not, could NOT understand why any woman would ever want to be caught dead in what I envisioned as a "muumuu".”
“Almost invariably, for some reason, the overweight person is a huge offender, even though dressed in the muumuu or bowling shirt and sweatpants, they still manage to make up for looking bad by trying to smell good and are therefore a huge nuisance.”
“She wore a muumuu and slippers and thick black sunglasses like she secretly wanted to be cool.”
“Consider it a mestizo muumuu, except much classier and not as trashy as your woman's ilk.”
The Huffington Post: Gustavo Arellano: ¡ASK A MEXICAN!: Special Mujer Edition
“If I'm looking for something, I need the sun," said Ms. Carmel, 39 years old, padding around her Brooklyn basement in a blue and white muumuu, her hair wrapped in a colorful scarf.”
“Many of Kevin Pollard's costumes were unflattering: Ms. DiDonato spent most of the show slouching around in what looked like a muumuu and dreadlocks, Ms. de Niese's androgynous brown getup made nothing of her beauty, and Plácido Domingo Neptune was overpowered by hair and clothing that made him look silly rather than godlike.”
The Wall Street Journal: Promoting the Baroque In an ADHD World
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘muumuu’.
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Mahalo Hawaiʻi
The triggerfish humuhumunukunukuapuaa belongs on this list too.
wahine, Diamond Head, Kilauea, D. Haw., Aiea, kapa, wauke, mamaki, kukui, kolokolo, koko, ilima and 123 more...
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Mirrored Vowels
Rules:
• The word must have an even number of vowels.
• There must be four or more vowels; thus, at minimum, an A-A-A-A or A-B-B-A pattern.
• The vowels must appear in a mir...feminine, solicitor, caruncular, repackager, semiprimes, fetishises, decomposer, demonlover, recomposer, sepultures, lipotropic, colesterol and 385 more...
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250 Extra Spelling Words
Some more words for intermediate and advanced spellers.
cultellarius, barouche, palanquin, badelaire, cavetto, tregetour, tergiversate, rhododendron, rhadamanthine, thyrsus, cappelletti, bradycardia and 238 more...
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Reduples
Go for it, brothers and sisters! I personally have been suffering long for lack of an open reduplicatives list
happy clappy, bribble-brabble, diddle-daddle, hugger-mugger, kikiriki, Bora-Bora, mahi-mahi, jingle-jangle, knick-knack paddy..., chit-chat, bon-bon, clapperclaw and 292 more...
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Words with uu
Words containing the string *uu, such as equuleus and duumviri. Click on the string to populate the list.
*uu, vacuum, muumuu, carduus, continuum, duumvir, individuum, lituus, menstruum, mutuum, paramenstruum, residuum and 2 more...
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I didn't expect to see THAT letter do...
aa, savvy, divvy, powwow, matchhead, skiing, hajj, trekking, continuum, vacuum, bathhouse, fishhook and 37 more...
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Time for a new list!
abrupt, erupt, rupture, sync, appropinquity, heterochromia, homochromatic, monochromatic, willy nilly, nitty gritty, kowtow, wonton and 455 more...
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What Is the Sound of One Hand Typing?
Words you can type with one hand--if you learned how to type formally. Hunt-and-peck method doesn't count. ;-) I'm keeping it to five or more letters to avoid an excessively lengthy list.
<...racecar, start, create, desert, dessert, secret, secrete, sweet, tresses, poppy, puppy, homonym and 141 more...
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Monovocalics
Words that have only one of the vowels. On this list I include only words with at least three vowels. When I first started the list, if a word had several forms, I generally listed only the one wit...
syzygy, mirific, cumulus, homolog, monocot, bedewed, jezebel, referee, bikini, minikin, locomotor, terebenthene and 2359 more...
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Déjà wordie?
pom-pom, mama, gaga, muumuu, cancan, dodo, aye-aye, kaka, dada, boo-boo, coco, lulu and 18 more...
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Dresses!
maxi, mini, gown, A-line, sheath, cocktail, jumper, sundress, strapless, mermaid, little black dress, shift and 35 more...
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Toot Toot, Beep Beep!
chichi, tomtom, weewee, poohpooh, tutu, tsetse, ta-ta, peepee, woop woop, ack-ack, ding-ding, bon bon and 44 more...
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Dahoozen's Words
pugnacious, prevaricate, spoonerism, indubitably, moggy, ziggurat, swashbuckler, saracen, gobstopper, ad hoc, demagoguery, pedantic and 10 more...
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scottcancan's Words
meconium, tole, onomatopoeia, litotes, wassailing, edifying, beatific, diaspora, lacadaisical, pontificate, verily, cloaca and 81 more...
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Rust words
Words I come across that I like
ensconce, realpolitik, fetid, froufrou, insouciant, sup, doh, truncated, obfuscate, shakespeherian, ocular, proletariat and 35 more...
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Words
malpitte, marshmellow, beneuk, doohickey, cara mia, fluke, blot, philosoraptor, kiki kannibal, duplo, whambulance, henchmen and 62 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for muumuu.
ruzuzu Well--to be more specific--I love writing this word in cursive and then turning it upside down. Mar 18, 2011
ruzuzu I love writing this word in cursive. Mar 10, 2011
madmouth the original word has 4 syllables, whereas the English borrowing has 2. this looks odd to my eyes because I'm so used to seeing English borrowings in Korean attain extra syllables (e.g. stand has 3 in the K version; 'ice cream' has 5)
Sep 21, 2009
oroboros Muumuu: Typed with one finger only. Check it out! Sep 22, 2008
slumry Ha Ha, I get a chuckle out of youse. Jul 10, 2007
reesetee Yes! And cat's-eye glasses, too. :-) Jul 10, 2007
oroboros Especially in Gary Larson cartoons! Jul 10, 2007
reesetee Why, moo moos, of course. ;-) Jul 10, 2007
slumry So Finnish cows say muu muu. . .I wonder what they wear. :) Jul 10, 2007
muamor ..is moo. Jul 9, 2007
adoarns loose-fitting dress often in a garish Hawaiian print. Dec 10, 2006