mooed; mooing; moos

intransitive verb

: to make the throat noise of a cow
moo noun

Examples of moo in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web After a few seconds, the officiant tried again, only for the cow to do the same thing and moo once more, setting the attendees off again. Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 7 Mar. 2024 Two hundred miles southeast of Hells Canyon, cows are mooing and birds are chirping as the sun rises over the Snake River Plain. Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2023 Geese and chickens squawked in a mesh pen nearby; a tethered cow mooed occasionally. Serhii Korolchuk, Washington Post, 6 June 2023 Like the sound of cows mooing or the sound of the door opening. ELLE, 29 Apr. 2023 Long after the longhorns had walked past him, 2-year-old Cruz Banda Neff continued to wave and moo at parade participants from his perch on father Alan Neff’s shoulders. Megan Rodriguez, San Antonio Express-News, 5 Feb. 2022 But getting the animals to calm down can be difficult when they are distracted by herdmates mooing or baaing in the distance. Dionne Searcey, New York Times, 13 May 2020 Innocent Ntirengaya’s request to marry Divine Uwamahoro is accepted, and so is the dowry—eight cows that have been mooing for hours in a nearby pasture. Caterina Clerici & Eléonore Hamelin, Marie Claire, 1 Feb. 2019 The animals mooed their dissent but finally boarded the trailer. NBC News, 30 June 2018

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Word History

Etymology

imitative

First Known Use

1549, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of moo was in 1549

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Cite this Entry

“Moo.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/moo. Accessed 19 Mar. 2024.

Kids Definition

moo

1 of 2 verb
ˈmü
: to make the low sound of a cow : low

moo

2 of 2 noun
: the sound a cow makes when it moos

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