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Grammar : Noun, verb
Spell : moo
Phonetic Transcription : mu



Definition of moo

Origin :
  • "to make the characteristic sound of a cow," 1540s, of imitative origin. Related: Mooed; mooing. The noun is from 1789. Baby-talk moo-cow (n.) attested from 1812.
  • As in cry : noun calling out; yelling
  • As in cry : verb call out, yell
Example sentences :
  • Of his wife, "Moo," who outlived him many years, how much one might say!
  • Extract from : « A Writer's Recollections (In Two Volumes), Volume II » by Mrs. Humphry Ward
  • From the pasture the red and white cow sent after them a broken-spirited "Moo!"
  • Extract from : « Cy Whittaker's Place » by Joseph C. Lincoln
  • Moo (m'o)--a reptile; a dragon; a mythologic monster (p. 260).
  • Extract from : « Unwritten Literature of Hawaii » by Nathaniel Bright Emerson
  • As they talked they had walked on and now heard a low “Moo!”
  • Extract from : « A Little Maid of Province Town » by Alice Turner Curtis
  • The O Moo was still standing in the little stream on the sandy island.
  • Extract from : « The Cruise of the O Moo » by Roy J. Snell
  • The boom of cannon outranked the moo of cattle in his meadows.
  • Extract from : « The Wonderful Story of Washington » by Charles M. Stevens
  • We'll have to depend on 'local talent' and—hear that cow 'Moo!'
  • Extract from : « Dorothy at Skyrie » by Evelyn Raymond
  • And Brindle always knows me, and says 'Moo' when she sees me.
  • Extract from : « Moni the Goat Boy and Other Stories » by Johanna Spyri
  • Alas, what could be done with beef, that had said "moo" that forenoon?
  • Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 67, Number 414, April, 1850 » by Various
  • They paw the ground and moo at each other but must not fight unless they can break the ring.
  • Extract from : « Jamaican Song and Story » by Walter Jekyll

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