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Moe vs Maria - What's the difference?

moe | maria |

As a noun moe

is .

As a proper noun maria is

.

moe

English

Etymology 1

(wikipedia moe) From (etyl) .

Alternative forms

*

Noun

(-)
  • (slang) Strong interest in, and especially fetishistic attraction toward, fictional characters in anime, manga, video games, and/or similar media.
  • Derived terms
    * figure moe zoku * moe anthropomorphism

    See also

    *

    Etymology 2

    Variant forms.

    Adverb

    (head)
  • * Shakespeare
  • Sing no more ditties, sing no moe .
  • * George Gascoigne
  • Many mast'ries moe .

    Noun

    (head)
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (to make faces)
  • Anagrams

    * * * ----

    maria

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) Maria, from (etyl) . A Latinate variant of the vernacular English (l).

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • .
  • * 1629 , , Meditations upon Creed , The Works of Thomas Adams, James Nichol (1862), volume 3, page 211:
  • Yet herein they come short of the monks and friars in their conceits of the word Maria ; they have so tossed it and turned it, so anagrammatized and transposed it, that never were five poor letters so worried since time did put them into the alphabet.
  • * 1776 , Adam Fitz-Adam: The World of Adam Fitz-Adam. Edinburgh, Apollo Press 1776: Numb. 187. Thursday, July 29, 1756:
  • By their dresses, their names, and the airs of quality they give themselves, I am rendered ridiculous among all my acquaintance. My wife, who is a very plain good woman, and whose name is Amey, has been new-christened, and is called Amelia; and my little daughter, a child of a year old, is no longer Polly, but Maria .
  • * 1957 , Arthur Laurents/Stephen Sondheim/Leonard Bernstein: ''West Side Story: Maria ( a song):
  • I've just kissed a girl named Maria', / And suddenly I found how wonderful a sound can be! / ' Maria ! Say it loud and there's music playing - / Say it soft and it's almost like praying

    Etymology 2

    Proper noun

    (Maria language) (en proper noun)
  • A Dravidian language spoken in Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh provinces in India.
  • Derived terms
    * Abujmaria

    Etymology 3

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • A Papuan language spoken in Papua New Guinea.