different between moo vs woof

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

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /w?f/, /wu?f/, enPR: wo?of
• Rhymes: -?f, -u?f

Etymology 1

From Middle English oof, owf, from Old English ?wef, ?wef, from ?- (“on”) +? wef (“web”), from Old English wefan (“to weave”), from Proto-Germanic *weban? (“to weave”), from Proto-Indo-European *web?-, *wob?- (“to weave, to lace together”).

Noun

woof (plural woofs)

1. The set of yarns placed crosswise in a loom, interlaced with the warp, carried by the shuttle; weft.
2. A fabric; the texture of a fabric.

Synonyms

• (crosswise thread or yarn): weft

Translations

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic.

Noun

woof (plural woofs)

1. The sound a dog makes when barking.

Coordinate terms

• (sound of a dog): arf, bark, bow wow, growl, howl, snarl, whimper, whine, yap, yelp, yip

Translations

Interjection

woof

1. The sound of a dog barking.
2. (humorous) Expression of strong physical attraction for someone.

Verb

woof (third-person singular simple present woofs, present participle woofing, simple past and past participle woofed)

1. To make a woofing sound.

Derived terms

• woofer

Translations

Etymology 3

Noun

woof

1. (marketing) Initialism of well-off older folks.
2. (agriculture) Initialism of work on an organic farm.

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -o?f

Verb

woof

1. singular past indicative of wuiven