different between moose vs mooseling

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: mo?os, IPA^(key): /mu?s/
• Rhymes: -u?s
• Homophone: mousse

Etymology 1

Earlier mus, moos, from an Eastern Algonquian language name for the animal, such as Massachusett moos, mws, Narragansett moos or Penobscot mos (cognate to Abenaki moz), from Proto-Algonquian *mo·swa (“it strips”), referring to how a moose strips tree bark when feeding: compare Massachusett moos-u (“he strips, cuts smooth”).

Noun

moose (plural moose or (dated, rare) mooses or (non-standard, jocular) meese)

1. (US, Canada) The largest member of the deer family (Alces americanus, sometimes included in Alces alces), of which the male has very large, palmate antlers.

   We saw a moose at the edge of the woods.

2. (informal) An ugly person.

Usage notes

• The usual plural of moose is moose; compare the names of many animals, such as deer and fish, which are also invariant. Other plurals are rare and non-standard: mooses (with the usual English plural-forming suffix -s) and meese (jocularly formed by analogy to goose ? geese).

Synonyms

• (largest member of the deer family (Alces americanus)): elk (British), Newfoundland speed bump (Canadian, humorous)

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Irish: mús
• ? Khmer: ????? (muuhs??)
• ? Korean: ?? (museu)
• ? Persian: ???? (mus)
  • ? Arabic: ????? (m??)
• ? Thai: ??? (múus)
  • Thai: ??????? (gwaang-mûut)

Translations

See also

• moose on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

Japanese ??? (“girl”).

Noun

moose

1. (US, military, slang) An Asian girl taken as a lover.
   • 2005, Rupert Nelson, Like the Rings of a Tree (page 279)

     In military bases in the rear areas it was common for soldiers to have a moose.

   • 2011, Michael Cullen Green, Black Yanks in the Pacific (page 75)

     Even the lowest ranked serviceman, because of his salary, benefits, and status as an American occupationaire, could afford to “maintain a 'Moose' and still take care of his other obligations.

References

Ojibwe

Noun

moose (plural mooseg)

1. worm
2. caterpillar

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English mous

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mus]

Noun

moose (plural mice)

1. mouse

English

Etymology

From moose +? -ling.

Noun

mooseling (plural mooselings)

1. (rare) A small, young, or baby moose.
   • 1915, Ruth Kedzie Wood, The Tourist's Maritime Provinces, Dodd, Mead, p. 42 (Google snippet view):

     Gently, with a hand on its furry neck, the three- or four-day-old mooseling was towed back to the shore where the distraught mother was thrashing and stomping among the trees.

   • 1995, Lawrence Buell, The Environmental Imagination, ?ISBN, p. 198 (Google preview):

     [M]oose and man are alike as caring parents, and the beast's tragedy, which the man has caused, smites the man's conscience and strengthens his resolve to be a good parent to mooseling as well as child.

   • 2010, Russell B. Hanson, "Rambling at the Edge" in St Croix River Road Ramblings, p. 50 (Google preview):

     [O]ur only visitor on the whole trip was a big moose and her mooseling, more interested in nibbling the brush than bothering us.

Synonyms

• calf

Anagrams

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