to moo
- verb
- /muː/
- As we approached the barn, we could hear the cows mooing nearby.
- cow moos
OK, just squeeze it and moo behind your hand.
- OK, just squeeze it and moo behind your hand.
- It's supposed to have all kinds of things, you know, bellowing and mooing and lowing and crashing about.
- I we used to sing together, you know, at night she'd moo and I'd sing R Kelly songs and stuff.
- Today I moo with my head about to fall as the church bells mournful clanging says that milk goes to market.
Examples
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There's a poem in which I moo like a cow.
Blog text (6) -
OK, just squeeze it and moo behind your hand.
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You wanna moo for a while?
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For one day, you too shall moo.
Blog text (10) -
To get me to moo like a cow all the way home to Scotland?
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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.
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You sort of add it to your breath meditation, usually just softly voicing the sound moo with each breath.
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You're supposed to moo.
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The farmer heard the cows moo as they grazed in the field.
Synonyms
To make the long deep sound that cows make
Compounds
How Loud
Surface Forms
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.