moon.¹int.

Brit.

/muː/, U.S.

/mu/

Forms: forms with o occurring three or more times are also occasionally attested.

Origin: An imitative or expressive formation.

Etymology: Imitative; compare earlier moo v. Similar representations of the cry of a cow (and corresponding nouns and verbs) are very widespread in numerous languages: compare e.g. German muh, French meuh, Spanish mu, Russian mu, Lithuanian mū, Latvian mau, etc.With sense A. 2, compare earlier moo-cow n.

A. n.¹

1. The lowing sound made by a cow or other bovine animal; an imitation of this. Also: an act of lowing.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > bos taurus or ox > [noun] > sound made by

boingc1487

rout1513

lowa1522

boo1706

bellow1779

moo1789

1789 D. Davidson Thoughts Seasons 46 Thou rangest o'er thy food, among the queys, A' fearless o' thy moo, or cap'ring tail.

1886 A. D. Willock Rosetty Ends (1889) 4 To hear the ‘moo’ o' the coos as they lazily saunter hame at milkin'-time.

1922 ‘R. Crompton’ More William (1924) iv. 70 The animal very slightly lowered its horns..and emitted a sonorous mo-o-o-o-o.

1963 A. Smith Throw out Two Hands (1966) xxii. 214 A big cow mooed straight at me. Not to be outdone, and having a moo among my repertoire, I mooed back.

1989 G. Cross On Edge (BNC) 67 In that moo, Jinny caught an echo of the bellowing noise Florence had made..when they took her calf away.

2. colloquial.

a. Chiefly North American and Australian. A cow.Recorded earliest in moo juice n. at Compounds.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > cow > [noun]

cowa800

nowtc1450

mower1673

colly1707

Scot1787

horny1808

moo-cow1810

sookie1838

bossy1844

sook1850

cow-creature1873

moo1930

1930 Lake County Times (Hammond, Indiana) 9 Aug. 9/9 The baseball game between the Hammond police team and the Borden Dairy milkmen on August 27 will be known as the Moo-Juice Mardi Gras.

1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang § 120/14 Cow, boss, bossy,..moo, moo cow, mooer.

1967 Listener 24 Aug. 252/1 Those bells which announce the approach of psychedels like medieval lepers or a herd of moos.

1990 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 13 Sept. 4/7 Before you were up this morning the average cow had dutifully produced the equal of 8 cartons of milk. More moo stories appear on the cartons.

1994 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 1 Jan. 15/8 (heading) Famed old moo dies... Dublin: The world's oldest cow, Big Bertha, has died at age 49.

b. humorous or derogatory. A person, esp. a woman, regarded as misguided or incompetent; usually with modifying adjective, as silly, stupid, etc. Cf. cow n.¹ 4b.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > foolish person, fool > [noun] > female

unchaghe1534

foppet1605

fop1714

tawpie1728

fooless1848

sillypop1894

bimbo1920

moo1967

bimbette1978

bimboid1990

Essex girl1991

the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > [noun] > unpleasantness > unpleasant person > woman

moo1967

1967 P. Bailey At Jerusalem i. 70 Unless she's one of those stupid moos who..look into crystal balls.

1973 J. Speight Till Death us do Part: Scripts 30 Course it's tax free—it's a rebate—you silly moo.

1990 Sun 1 Mar. 3 Silly council moos sent his cows poll tax forms.

B. int.

Representing the sound of lowing, or an imitation of this.

ΚΠ

1845 L. M. Child in Merry's Museum Dec. 377/1 ‘Not I’, said the cow, ‘Moo oo!’

1912 W. Canton Invisible Playmate 26 Moo, moo!—a coo!

1991 J. Davidson Nat. Creation & Formative Mind (BNC) 127 A dog never learns to go ‘Woof’ or a cow to go ‘Moo’. They do so automatically.

Compounds

moo juice n. North American (originally U.S.) colloquial cow's milk.

ΚΠ

1930 Lake County Times (Hammond, Indiana) 9 Aug. 9/9 The baseball game between the Hammond police team and the Borden Dairy milkmen on August 27 will be known as the Moo-Juice Mardi Gras.

1946 M. Mezzrow & B. Wolfe Really Blues viii. 122 They were going to leave the milkman a note telling him to nix out the moo-juice.

1991 P. J. O'Rourke Parl. of Whores (1992) 149 Hell, even homeless welfare babies were drinking moo juice.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

moon.²

Brit.

/muː/, U.S.

/mu/

Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: moolah n.

Etymology: Shortened < moolah n.

slang (chiefly U.S.).

= moolah n.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > money > [noun]

silverc825

feec870

pennieseOE

wortheOE

mintOE

scata1122

spense?c1225

spendinga1290

sumc1300

gooda1325

moneya1325

cattlec1330

muckc1330

reasona1382

pecunyc1400

gilt1497

argentc1500

gelta1529

Mammon1539

ale silver1541

scruff1559

the sinews of war1560

sterling1565

lour1567

will-do-all1583

shell1591

trasha1592

quinyie1596

brass1597

pecuniary1604

dust1607

nomisma1614

countera1616

cross and pilea1625

gingerbreada1625

rhinoa1628

cash1646

grig1657

spanker1663

cole1673

goree1699

mopus1699

quid1699

ribbin1699

bustle1763

necessary1772

stuff1775

needfula1777

iron1785

(the) Spanish1788

pecuniar1793

kelter1807

dibs1812

steven1812

pewter1814

brad1819

pogue1819

rent1823

stumpy1828

posh1830

L. S. D.1835

rivetc1835

tin1836

mint sauce1839

nobbins1846

ochre1846

dingbat1848

dough1848

cheese1850

California1851

mali1851

ducat1853

pay dirt1853

boodle?1856

dinero1856

scad1856

the shiny1856

spondulicks1857

rust1858

soap1860

sugar1862

coin1874

filthy1876

wampum1876

ooftish1877

shekel1883

oil1885

oof1885

mon1888

Jack1890

sploshc1890

bees and honey1892

spending-brass1896

stiff1897

mazuma1900

mazoom1901

cabbage1903

lettuce1903

Oscar Asche1905

jingle1906

doubloons1908

kale1912

scratch1914

green1917

oscar1917

snow1925

poke1926

oodle1930

potatos1931

bread1935

moolah1936

acker1939

moo1941

lolly1943

loot1943

poppy1943

mazoola1944

dosh1953

bickies1966

lovely jubbly1990

scrilla1994

1941 Pittsburgh Courier 8 Nov. 7 Tossing 'round big gobs of moo, As if the stuff on bushes grew.

1949 W. R. Burnett Asphalt Jungle (1950) vii. 56 After all, as far as she knew, he was still loaded with what the boys vulgarly referred to as moo!

1975 D. Bloodworth Clients of Omega ix. 84 Most of my nurses..don't work for moo... But local stuff I pay.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

moov.

Brit.

/muː/, U.S.

/mu/

Forms: 1500s mooe, 1600s– moo, 1800s mue; also Scottish pre-1700 mo, 1800s moe.

Origin: An imitative or expressive formation.

Etymology: Imitative. Compare e.g. Anglo-Norman muire , Old French, Middle French, French mugir (c1285; first half of the 13th cent. as muir , c1120 as muire ), classical Latin mūgīre , ancient Greek μυκᾶσθαι , German muhen (15th cent.), Russian myčat' (17th cent.), Lithuanian mūkti , etc., and see discussion s.v. moo n.¹ and int. Compare mow v.⁴Compare the following:1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. (at cited word) To moe, to cry as a calf; Mue being used to express the lowing of a cow.

intransitive. Of a cow or other bovine animal: to make its characteristic deep resonant vocal sound; to low. Of a person or thing: to make a sound imitative or suggestive of this.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > bos taurus or ox > [verb (intransitive)] > make sound

bellowc1000

lowOE

routc1475

boc1487

lout1530

mooc1550

mow1553

booa1555

blart1896

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > sounds like animal or bird sounds > [verb (intransitive)] > moo

moo1855

c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 31 The calfis began tyl mo.

1565 A. Golding tr. Ovid Fyrst Fower Bks. Metamorphosis i. f. 10^v Thou [sc. Io]..dolefully doost mooe Unto my talke.

1607 W. N. Barley-breake sig. D1 Whose dolefull sounds the Eccho did receiue, That to his moanes the syluan beasts did moo.

1743 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman (Dublin ed.) May vi. 84 To let a Cow go unmilked..till her Bag akes and she mooes to be milked.

1818 H. J. Todd Johnson's Dict. Eng. Lang. To Mue,..2. To low as a cow; usually pronounced moo, though mue should seem to be the orthography.

1855 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes II. xviii. 174 Blessed darling crows, moos, jumps in his nurse's arms.

1892 J. S. Fletcher When Charles I was King I. ii. 37 I used to wonder..if that were Farmer Denby's roan cow that mooed so loudly under the western window.

1929 S. Hoffenstein Poems in Praise 59 The grass is green, the cows are mooing.

1990 T. Pratchett Diggers (BNC) 100 It [sc. a human] opened its mouth and mooed at them.

2015 M. Poland Keeper vi. 54 The horn was droning from the lighthouse, the forlorn lament of some stranded sea-creature mooing at the mist.

Derivatives

ˈmooing n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > bos taurus or ox > [noun] > sound made by > making sound

lowingOE

routinga1425

bellowing1552

mowing1553

mooing1844

1844 W. M. Thackeray Little Trav. i A huge penful of Durham oxen..maintain an incessant mooing and bellowing.

1888 Harper's Mag. Apr. 738 The mooing of the waters seemed to deepen.

1986 J. Bauman Winter in Morning viii. 175 I stay in bed and listen to the mooing and squawking.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

n.¹int.1789

n.²1941

v.c1550

单词	moo
释义	moon.¹int. Brit. /muː/, U.S. /mu/ Forms: forms with o occurring three or more times are also occasionally attested. Origin: An imitative or expressive formation. Etymology: Imitative; compare earlier moo v. Similar representations of the cry of a cow (and corresponding nouns and verbs) are very widespread in numerous languages: compare e.g. German muh, French meuh, Spanish mu, Russian mu, Lithuanian mū, Latvian mau, etc.With sense A. 2, compare earlier moo-cow n. A. n.¹ 1. The lowing sound made by a cow or other bovine animal; an imitation of this. Also: an act of lowing. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > bos taurus or ox > [noun] > sound made by boingc1487 rout1513 lowa1522 boo1706 bellow1779 moo1789 1789 D. Davidson Thoughts Seasons 46 Thou rangest o'er thy food, among the queys, A' fearless o' thy moo, or cap'ring tail. 1886 A. D. Willock Rosetty Ends (1889) 4 To hear the ‘moo’ o' the coos as they lazily saunter hame at milkin'-time. 1922 ‘R. Crompton’ More William (1924) iv. 70 The animal very slightly lowered its horns..and emitted a sonorous mo-o-o-o-o. 1963 A. Smith Throw out Two Hands (1966) xxii. 214 A big cow mooed straight at me. Not to be outdone, and having a moo among my repertoire, I mooed back. 1989 G. Cross On Edge (BNC) 67 In that moo, Jinny caught an echo of the bellowing noise Florence had made..when they took her calf away. 2. colloquial. a. Chiefly North American and Australian. A cow.Recorded earliest in moo juice n. at Compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > cow > [noun] cowa800 nowtc1450 mower1673 colly1707 Scot1787 horny1808 moo-cow1810 sookie1838 bossy1844 sook1850 cow-creature1873 moo1930 1930 Lake County Times (Hammond, Indiana) 9 Aug. 9/9 The baseball game between the Hammond police team and the Borden Dairy milkmen on August 27 will be known as the Moo-Juice Mardi Gras. 1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang § 120/14 Cow, boss, bossy,..moo, moo cow, mooer. 1967 Listener 24 Aug. 252/1 Those bells which announce the approach of psychedels like medieval lepers or a herd of moos. 1990 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 13 Sept. 4/7 Before you were up this morning the average cow had dutifully produced the equal of 8 cartons of milk. More moo stories appear on the cartons. 1994 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 1 Jan. 15/8 (heading) Famed old moo dies... Dublin: The world's oldest cow, Big Bertha, has died at age 49. b. humorous or derogatory. A person, esp. a woman, regarded as misguided or incompetent; usually with modifying adjective, as silly, stupid, etc. Cf. cow n.¹ 4b. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > foolish person, fool > [noun] > female unchaghe1534 foppet1605 fop1714 tawpie1728 fooless1848 sillypop1894 bimbo1920 moo1967 bimbette1978 bimboid1990 Essex girl1991 the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > [noun] > unpleasantness > unpleasant person > woman moo1967 1967 P. Bailey At Jerusalem i. 70 Unless she's one of those stupid moos who..look into crystal balls. 1973 J. Speight Till Death us do Part: Scripts 30 Course it's tax free—it's a rebate—you silly moo. 1990 Sun 1 Mar. 3 Silly council moos sent his cows poll tax forms. B. int. Representing the sound of lowing, or an imitation of this. ΚΠ 1845 L. M. Child in Merry's Museum Dec. 377/1 ‘Not I’, said the cow, ‘Moo oo!’ 1912 W. Canton Invisible Playmate 26 Moo, moo!—a coo! 1991 J. Davidson Nat. Creation & Formative Mind (BNC) 127 A dog never learns to go ‘Woof’ or a cow to go ‘Moo’. They do so automatically. Compounds moo juice n. North American (originally U.S.) colloquial cow's milk. ΚΠ 1930 Lake County Times (Hammond, Indiana) 9 Aug. 9/9 The baseball game between the Hammond police team and the Borden Dairy milkmen on August 27 will be known as the Moo-Juice Mardi Gras. 1946 M. Mezzrow & B. Wolfe Really Blues viii. 122 They were going to leave the milkman a note telling him to nix out the moo-juice. 1991 P. J. O'Rourke Parl. of Whores (1992) 149 Hell, even homeless welfare babies were drinking moo juice. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2022). moon.² Brit. /muː/, U.S. /mu/ Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: moolah n. Etymology: Shortened < moolah n. slang (chiefly U.S.). = moolah n. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > [noun] silverc825 feec870 pennieseOE wortheOE mintOE scata1122 spense?c1225 spendinga1290 sumc1300 gooda1325 moneya1325 cattlec1330 muckc1330 reasona1382 pecunyc1400 gilt1497 argentc1500 gelta1529 Mammon1539 ale silver1541 scruff1559 the sinews of war1560 sterling1565 lour1567 will-do-all1583 shell1591 trasha1592 quinyie1596 brass1597 pecuniary1604 dust1607 nomisma1614 countera1616 cross and pilea1625 gingerbreada1625 rhinoa1628 cash1646 grig1657 spanker1663 cole1673 goree1699 mopus1699 quid1699 ribbin1699 bustle1763 necessary1772 stuff1775 needfula1777 iron1785 (the) Spanish1788 pecuniar1793 kelter1807 dibs1812 steven1812 pewter1814 brad1819 pogue1819 rent1823 stumpy1828 posh1830 L. S. D.1835 rivetc1835 tin1836 mint sauce1839 nobbins1846 ochre1846 dingbat1848 dough1848 cheese1850 California1851 mali1851 ducat1853 pay dirt1853 boodle?1856 dinero1856 scad1856 the shiny1856 spondulicks1857 rust1858 soap1860 sugar1862 coin1874 filthy1876 wampum1876 ooftish1877 shekel1883 oil1885 oof1885 mon1888 Jack1890 sploshc1890 bees and honey1892 spending-brass1896 stiff1897 mazuma1900 mazoom1901 cabbage1903 lettuce1903 Oscar Asche1905 jingle1906 doubloons1908 kale1912 scratch1914 green1917 oscar1917 snow1925 poke1926 oodle1930 potatos1931 bread1935 moolah1936 acker1939 moo1941 lolly1943 loot1943 poppy1943 mazoola1944 dosh1953 bickies1966 lovely jubbly1990 scrilla1994 1941 Pittsburgh Courier 8 Nov. 7 Tossing 'round big gobs of moo, As if the stuff on bushes grew. 1949 W. R. Burnett Asphalt Jungle (1950) vii. 56 After all, as far as she knew, he was still loaded with what the boys vulgarly referred to as moo! 1975 D. Bloodworth Clients of Omega ix. 84 Most of my nurses..don't work for moo... But local stuff I pay. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). moov. Brit. /muː/, U.S. /mu/ Forms: 1500s mooe, 1600s– moo, 1800s mue; also Scottish pre-1700 mo, 1800s moe. Origin: An imitative or expressive formation. Etymology: Imitative. Compare e.g. Anglo-Norman muire , Old French, Middle French, French mugir (c1285; first half of the 13th cent. as muir , c1120 as muire ), classical Latin mūgīre , ancient Greek μυκᾶσθαι , German muhen (15th cent.), Russian myčat' (17th cent.), Lithuanian mūkti , etc., and see discussion s.v. moo n.¹ and int. Compare mow v.⁴Compare the following:1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. (at cited word) To moe, to cry as a calf; Mue being used to express the lowing of a cow. intransitive. Of a cow or other bovine animal: to make its characteristic deep resonant vocal sound; to low. Of a person or thing: to make a sound imitative or suggestive of this. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > bos taurus or ox > [verb (intransitive)] > make sound bellowc1000 lowOE routc1475 boc1487 lout1530 mooc1550 mow1553 booa1555 blart1896 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > sounds like animal or bird sounds > [verb (intransitive)] > moo moo1855 c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 31 The calfis began tyl mo. 1565 A. Golding tr. Ovid Fyrst Fower Bks. Metamorphosis i. f. 10^v Thou [sc. Io]..dolefully doost mooe Unto my talke. 1607 W. N. Barley-breake sig. D1 Whose dolefull sounds the Eccho did receiue, That to his moanes the syluan beasts did moo. 1743 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman (Dublin ed.) May vi. 84 To let a Cow go unmilked..till her Bag akes and she mooes to be milked. 1818 H. J. Todd Johnson's Dict. Eng. Lang. To Mue,..2. To low as a cow; usually pronounced moo, though mue should seem to be the orthography. 1855 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes II. xviii. 174 Blessed darling crows, moos, jumps in his nurse's arms. 1892 J. S. Fletcher When Charles I was King I. ii. 37 I used to wonder..if that were Farmer Denby's roan cow that mooed so loudly under the western window. 1929 S. Hoffenstein Poems in Praise 59 The grass is green, the cows are mooing. 1990 T. Pratchett Diggers (BNC) 100 It [sc. a human] opened its mouth and mooed at them. 2015 M. Poland Keeper vi. 54 The horn was droning from the lighthouse, the forlorn lament of some stranded sea-creature mooing at the mist. Derivatives ˈmooing n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > bos taurus or ox > [noun] > sound made by > making sound lowingOE routinga1425 bellowing1552 mowing1553 mooing1844 1844 W. M. Thackeray Little Trav. i A huge penful of Durham oxen..maintain an incessant mooing and bellowing. 1888 Harper's Mag. Apr. 738 The mooing of the waters seemed to deepen. 1986 J. Bauman Winter in Morning viii. 175 I stay in bed and listen to the mooing and squawking. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹int.1789n.²1941v.c1550
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moon.1int.

Compounds

moon.2

moov.

Derivatives

moon.¹int.

moon.²