Moot vs Moob - What's the difference?
moot | moob |
Subject to discussion (originally at a ); arguable, debatable, unsolved or impossible to solve.
* 1770 , (Joseph Banks), The (published 1962):
* 1851 , (Herman Melville), :
* 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 477:
(North America, chiefly, legal) Being an exercise of thought; academic.
(North America) Having no practical impact or relevance.
* 2007 , Paul Mankowski, "
A moot court.
* Sir T. Elyot
A system of arbitration in many areas of Africa in which the primary goal is to settle a dispute and reintegrate adversaries into society rather than assess penalties.
(Scouting) A gathering of Rovers (18–26 year-old Scouts), usually in the form of a camp lasting 2 weeks.
(paganism) A social gathering of pagans, normally held in a public house.
(historical) An assembly (usually for decision making in a locality).
(shipbuilding) A ring for gauging wooden pins.
To bring up as a subject for debate, to propose.
To discuss or debate.
* Sir W. Hamilton
* Sir T. Elyot
(US) To make or declare irrelevant.
To argue or plead in a supposed case.
* Ben Jonson
(slang, usually in plural) A plump or untoned breast on a man.
* 2001 September 3, miha ³, "Re: I know I shouldn't be doing this but...", in alt.games.video.nintendo.gamecube, Usenet, [http://groups.google.com/group/alt.games.video.nintendo.gamecube/msg/68f3f6fef2948c09]
* 2007 January 6, The Guardian ,
* 2009 , Will Self, Ralph Steadman, Psycho too , page 242:
As nouns the difference between moot and moob
is that moot is a moot court while moob is a plump or untoned breast on a man.As an adjective moot
is subject to discussion (originally at a moot); arguable, debatable, unsolved or impossible to solve.As a verb moot
is to bring up as a subject for debate, to propose.moot
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) moot, mot, . Related to (l).Adjective
(en adjective)- [T]he uncertain, unsettled condition of this science of Cetology is in the very vestibule attested by the fact, that in some quarters it still remains a moot point whether a whale be a fish.
- The extent to which these Parisian radicals ‘represented’ the French people as a whole was very moot .
- Walter Crane and Lewis F. Day (1903) Moot Points : Friendly Disputes on Art and Industry Between Walter Crane and Lewis F. Day
- That point may make for a good discussion, but it is moot .
The Languages of Biblical Translation", Adoremus Bulletin , Vol. 13, No. 4,
- The question [whether certain poetry was present in the original Hebrew Psalms] in our own time is moot , since various considerations have made it certain that, of all the hazards presented by biblical translation, a dangerous excess of beauty is not one of them.
Synonyms
* (without relevance) irrelevant, obsolete (if it was previously relevant)Derived terms
* moot point * moot courtNoun
(en noun)- The pleading used in courts and chancery called moots .
Derived terms
* folkmoot * gemootVerb
(en verb)- a problem which hardly has been mentioned, much less mooted , in this country
- First a case is appointed to be mooted by certain young men, containing some doubtful controversy.
- There is a difference between mooting and pleading; between fencing and fighting.
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*Etymology 2
Origin unknown.References
*moob
English
Noun
(en noun)- Yeah, put a shirt on gene, we don't want to see your fatty moobs .
- Often – I refer you in particular to Rod Stewart and Tony Blair – these moobs are strangely taut and unsaggy, and have that bee-stung, 12-year-old girl look.
- Ranged along the sides of the broad chamber were curtained booths containing day beds, and from time to time an overweight East End cabbie would emerge from one of these, his moobs glistening with sweat, [...]
