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to moo

to moo

2 1.0
To make a deep low sound like a cow
  • verb
  • /muː/
translation icon : mugir
  • As we approached the barn, we could hear the cows mooing nearby.
  • cow moos

OK, just squeeze it and moo behind your hand.

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Examples

  • There's a poem in which I moo like a cow.

    Blog text (6)
  • OK, just squeeze it and moo behind your hand.

  • You wanna moo for a while?

  • For one day, you too shall moo.

    Blog text (10)
  • To get me to moo like a cow all the way home to Scotland?

  • If you moo properly, they take you out to pasture.

    Fiction book (1992)
  • I also do moo cow Mondays where I dress as a cow and I moo while I come.

  • You sort of add it to your breath meditation, usually just softly voicing the sound moo with each breath.

  • You're supposed to moo.

  • The farmer heard the cows moo as they grazed in the field.

Synonyms

to low
vsto moo
6 8.2

To make the long deep sound that cows make

is the same action but uses the other common name for that sound

Compounds

2 8.4

A Chinese dish with chicken and mushrooms in a light sauce

moo juice
  • Slang
1 8.8

An informal funny name for milk from cows

1.0

A low, long sound a cow makes

moo-cow
  • Baby Talk
1.7

A child's word for a cow on a farm

How Loud

to roar
98 1.0
bellow
20 4.6
to moo
2 1.0
to murmur
11 4.2
to whisper
586 1.0

Surface Forms

moo infinitive
mooed past
mooed past participle
mooing present participle
moos third person singular

Etymology

Moo as a verb comes from the sound cows make, so to moo is to give that same 'low' call. The noun and the verb are the animal sound used as a word.