Moo vs Moor - What's the difference?
moo | moor |
(onomatopoeia) The characteristic sound made by a cow or bull.
A foolish woman.
an extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath
* Carew
a game preserve consisting of moorland
To cast anchor or become fastened.
(nautical) To fix or secure, as a vessel, in a particular place by casting anchor, or by fastening with cables or chains; as, the vessel was moored in the stream''; ''they moored the boat to the wharf .
To secure or fix firmly.
In intransitive terms the difference between moo and moor
is that moo is of a cow or bull, to make its characteristic lowing sound while moor is to cast anchor or become fastened.As an interjection moo
is the characteristic sound made by a cow or bull.As an initialism MOO
is matter of opinion.moo
English
Noun
(en noun)- You silly moo ! What did you do that for?
Synonyms
* lowmoor
English
Usage notes
(more) is not a homophone in Northern UK accents, while (mooer) is homophonous only in those accents.Etymology 1
(etyl) . See (m).Noun
(en noun)- A cold, biting wind blew across the moor , and the travellers hastened their step.
- In her girlish age she kept sheep on the moor .