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Moose vs Mooseling - What's the difference?

moose | mooseling |

Mooseling is a derived term of moose.



As nouns the difference between moose and mooseling

is that moose is the largest member of the deer family (Alces alces), of which the male has very large, palmate antlers while mooseling is a small, young, or baby moose.

moose

English

Etymology 1

Earlier mus'', ''moos , from a Northeastern (etyl) language name for the animal, such as (etyl) moos, mws (cognate to (etyl) moos, (etyl) mos, (etyl) moz), from , referring to how a moose strips tree bark when feeding. Online Etymology Dictionary

Noun

  • (US) The largest member of the deer family (Alces alces ), of which the male has very large, palmate antlers.
    • We saw a moose at the edge of the woods by the marsh .
  • (informal) An ugly person
    • Usage notes
    * The use of (as with the names of many animals, such as deer and fish, which are also invariant); however, this usage can sometimes be considered stilted when a group of more than one moose are considered individually, in which case avoidance of the plural may be the best option, necessitating the employment of a circumlocution.
    Synonyms
    * (l) (British), (l) (qualifier)
    Derived terms
    * moosebird * moose deer * mooseling * moosey * moose yard * mooseyness
    See also
    * (wikipedia "moose")

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) moes.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete, rare) A stew.

    • References

    English invariant nouns English irregular plurals English plurals ----

    mooseling

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (label) A small, young, or baby moose.
  • * 1915 , Ruth Kedzie Wood, The Tourist's Maritime Provinces , Dodd, Mead, p. 42 (Google snippet view):
    • Gently, with a hand on its furry neck, the three- or four-day-old mooseling was towed back to the shore where the distraught mother was thrashing and stomping among the trees.
  • * 1995 , , The Environmental Imagination , ISBN 9780674258624, p. 198 (Google preview):
    • [M]oose and man are alike as caring parents, and the beast's tragedy, which the man has caused, smites the man's conscience and strengthens his resolve to be a good parent to mooseling as well as child.
  • * 2010 , Russell B. Hanson, "Rambling at the Edge" in St Croix River Road Ramblings , p. 50 (Google preview):
    • [O]ur only visitor on the whole trip was a big moose and her mooseling , more interested in nibbling the brush than bothering us.

    Synonyms

    * calf