different between mozo vs mofo

English

Etymology

From Spanish mozo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m??z??/, /?mo?o/

Noun

mozo (plural mozos)

1. A male servant, especially an attendant to a bullfighter.
2. A title of respect for a young man (usually unmarried) with or without a name used. (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)
3. An unmarried man, a boy. (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)

Anagrams

• Zoom, zoom

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese moço (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria) of unknown origin. Cognate with Portuguese moço, Asturian mozu, and Spanish mozo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mo?o?/, (western) /?moso?/

Noun

mozo m (plural mozos, feminine moza, feminine plural mozas)

1. boy; teenager; young man; single man

   Synonyms: homiño, rapaz

2. boyfriend

   Synonym: noivo

3. (archaic) junior (person that is younger than other person)
   • 1485, M. Lucas Álvarez and P. Lucas Domínguez (eds.), El monasterio de San Clodio do Ribeiro en la Edad Media: estudio y documentos. Sada: Edicións do Castro, page 709:

     Vasco d'Oseve o mozo, fillo de Vasco d'Oseve o vello

     Vasco de Oseve junior, son of Vasco de Oseve senior

Derived terms

• mociño

Adjective

mozo m (feminine singular moza, masculine plural mozos, feminine plural mozas)

1. young; younger

References

• “moço” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “moço” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “mozo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “mozo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “mozo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Potawatomi

Etymology

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Noun

mozo

1. moose

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Spanish

Alternative forms

• moço (obsolete)

Etymology

Uncertain origin, probably ultimately identical with muchacho (cf. mocho), or from Latin musteus (“must-like, of new wine, fresh”), from musteum, from mustum. Other theories include a pre-Roman origin. Compare Portuguese moço, Galician mozo, Asturian mozu. Cf. also Catalan mosso (taken from Spanish) and motxo. There may alternatively be a link to Italian mozzo (“cut off, docked”), French mousse (“blunt”), or Basque motz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /?mo?o/, [?mo.?o]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /?moso/, [?mo.so]

Noun

mozo m (plural mozos, feminine moza, feminine plural mozas)

1. boy, lad, young man, youth
2. servant, helper, steward, manservant
3. (Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Peru) waiter, server

   Synonym: camarero

4. cat, tomcat

Derived terms

• aeromozo
• mozo de espadas

Descendants

• Catalan: mosso
• ? Italian: mozzo
• ? Yosondúa Mixtec: musu

Adjective

mozo (feminine moza, masculine plural mozos, feminine plural mozas)

1. young, youthful
2. unmarried

Further reading

• “mozo” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Alternative forms

• mo-fo, mo fo, mo' fo, etc.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m??f??/
• Rhymes: -??f??

Etymology

Abbreviation of motherfucker or motherfucking.

Noun

mofo (plural mofos)

1. (vulgar, slang) Abbreviation of motherfucker.

   Man, he's a big mofo.

Adjective

mofo (not comparable)

1. (vulgar, slang) Abbreviation of motherfucking.

   Man, he's got a big mofo truck.

Adverb

mofo (not comparable)

1. (vulgar, slang) Abbreviation of motherfucking.

Anagrams

• FOMO, FoMO, foom, moof

Galician

Etymology

Unknown. Perhaps onomatopoeic or either of Germanic origin: compare Portuguese mofo, Spanish moho, Italian muffa (“mould”), German Muff (“mouldy smell”), Dutch muf (“musty”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?mo.f?]

Noun

mofo m (plural mofos)

1. mold
2. moss

   Synonym: musgo

References

• “mofo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “mofo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “mofo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• môfo (obsolete, noun only)

Pronunciation

• (Brazil, Portugal) IPA^(key): /?mo.fu/

Etymology 1

From Italian muffa (“mould, mildew”)

Noun

mofo m (plural mofos)

1. mold
2. the smell of mold
3. must (the property of being stale or musty)
4. (phytopathology) mildew (growth of minute powdery or webby fungi on a plant)

Etymology 2

From mofar.

Verb

mofo

1. first-person singular (eu) present indicative of mofar

Spanish

Verb

mofo

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of mofar.

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

From English mouth.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mo.fo/

Noun

mofo

1. mouth