different between moo vs shoo

English

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /mu?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /mu/
• Rhymes: -u?
• Homophone: mu

Noun

moo (plural moos)

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

   You silly moo! What did you do that for?

Derived terms

• moolike

Translations

Verb

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.

Synonyms

• low, boo (rare)

Translations

Interjection

moo

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

Translations

Anagrams

• OOM, omo-, oom

Arabela

Noun

moo

1. river

Japanese

Romanization

moo

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish móu, móo, from Proto-Celtic *m?yos, comparative form of *m?ros, from Proto-Indo-European *meh?-. Cognate with Scottish Gaelic mò, Irish mó and Welsh mwy.

Adjective

moo

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

See also

• smoo

Murui Huitoto

Etymology

From Proto-Huitoto-Ocaina *m?h?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?m??]
• Hyphenation: moo

Root

moo

1. father

Derived terms

• mooma

Noun

moo

1. vocative of mooma (“father”)

Noun

moo

1. Synonym of mooma (“father”)

Coordinate terms

• ei

References

• Shirley Burtch (1983) Diccionario Huitoto Murui (Tomo I) (Linguistica Peruana No. 20)?^[1] (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.?^[2], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 125

Sotho

Adverb

moo

1. there; distal demonstrative adverb.

Ulch

Noun

moo

1. tree, wood

References

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

English

Etymology

Compare Dutch schuwen (“to shun”), German scheuchen (“to scare, drive away”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?u?/
• Rhymes: -u?
• Homophones: shoe, SHU

Verb

shoo (third-person singular simple present shoos, present participle shooing, simple past and past participle shooed)

1. (transitive, informal) To induce someone or something to leave.

2. (intransitive, informal) To leave under inducement.

3. (informal, rare) To usher someone.

Derived terms

• shoo away
• shoo-in
• shoo off

Translations

Interjection

shoo!

1. (informal, demeaning) Go away! Clear off!

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:go away

Translations

Anagrams

• SOHO, SoHo, Soho, oohs, soho

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

shoo

1. Alternative form of sho (“shoe”)

Etymology 2

Verb

shoo

1. Alternative form of shon (“to shoe”)

Navajo

Interjection

shoo

1. I see; oh yes, I see

Derived terms

• ání???? shoo
• ge? shoo

Swahili

Etymology

Borrowed from English show.

Pronunciation

Noun

shoo (n class, plural shoo)

1. show (performance)

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English sche, from Old English h?o, h?o.

Proper noun

shoo

1. she

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN