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Moe vs Woe - What's the difference?

moe | woe |

As nouns the difference between moe and woe

is that moe is strong interest in, and especially fetishistic attraction toward, fictional characters in anime, manga, video games, and/or similar media while woe is grief; sorrow; misery; heavy calamity.

As an adverb moe

is obsolete form of lang=en.

As a verb moe

is obsolete form of lang=en.

As a proper noun Moe

is a surname, possibly formed by abbreviation of Moses or another name beginning with "Mo-".

As an adjective woe is

woeful; sorrowful.

moe

English

Etymology 1

(wikipedia moe) From (etyl) .

Alternative forms

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Noun

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  • (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
    Related terms
    * moe book * moekko * moe sangyo * moetan

    See also

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    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

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    woe

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • grief; sorrow; misery; heavy calamity.
  • * Milton
    • Thus saying, from her side the fatal key, / Sad instrument of all our woe , she took.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • [They] weep each other's woe .
  • A curse; a malediction.
  • * South
    • Can there be a woe or curse in all the stores of vengeance equal to the malignity of such a practice?

    Derived terms

    * in weal or woe * woeful * woe is me

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) woeful; sorrowful
  • * Robert of Brunne
    • His clerk was woe to do that deed.
  • * Chaucer
    • Woe was this knight and sorrowfully he sighed.
  • * Spenser
    • And looking up he waxed wondrous woe .

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