moo | (noun) the sound made by a cow or bull | - |
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(verb) make a low noise, characteristic of bovines | Synonyms: low |
mooch | (noun) someone who mooches or cadges (tries to get something free) | Synonyms: cadger, moocher, scrounger |
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(verb) ask for and get free; be a parasite | Synonyms: bum, cadge, grub, sponge |
moocher | (noun) someone who mooches or cadges (tries to get something free) | Synonyms: cadger, mooch, scrounger |
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mood | (noun) a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling | Synonyms: humor, humour, temper |
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(noun) verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker | Synonyms: modality, mode |
(noun) the prevailing psychological state | Synonyms: climate |
moodily | (adverb) in a moody manner | - |
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moodiness | (noun) having temperamental and changeable moods | - |
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(noun) a sullen gloomy feeling | - |
moody | (adjective) subject to sharply varying moods | Synonyms: temperamental |
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(adjective) showing a brooding ill humor | Synonyms: dark, dour, glowering, glum, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen |
moolah | (noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum |
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moon | (noun) any natural satellite of a planet | - |
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(noun) any object resembling a moon | - |
(noun) the natural satellite of the Earth | Synonyms: Moon |
(noun) the period between successive new moons (29.531 days) | Synonyms: lunar month, lunation, synodic month |
(verb) expose one's buttocks to | - |
(verb) be idle in a listless or dreamy way | Synonyms: moon around, moon on |
(verb) have dreamlike musings or fantasies while awake | Synonyms: daydream |
moonbeam | (noun) a ray of moonlight | Synonyms: moon-ray, moon ray |
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mooneye | (noun) recurrent eye inflammation in horses; sometimes resulting in blindness | Synonyms: moon blindness |
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moonfish | (noun) large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean | Synonyms: Lampris regius, opah |
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(noun) any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies | Synonyms: Atlantic moonfish, dollarfish, horse-head, horsefish, horsehead, Selene setapinnis |
moonflower | (noun) pantropical climber having white fragrant nocturnal flowers | Synonyms: belle de nuit, Ipomoea alba |
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moong | (noun) seed of the mung bean plant used for food; food from the seed of the mung bean plant | Synonyms: golden gram, green bean, green gram, green soy, mash bean, monggo, mung, mung bean, munggo |
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(noun) seed of the mung bean plant; used for food; seed of the mung bean plant | Synonyms: golden gram, green bean, green gram, green soy, mash bean, monggo, mung, mung bean, munggo |
moonily | (adverb) in a dreamy manner | Synonyms: dreamfully, dreamily |
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moonless | (adjective) without a moon or a visible moon | - |
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moonlight | (noun) the light of the Moon | Synonyms: Moon, moonshine |
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(verb) work a second job, usually after hours | - |
moonlighter | (noun) a person who holds a second job (usually after hours) | - |
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moonlike | (adjective) resembling the moon in shape | Synonyms: moon-round |
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moonlit | (adjective) lighted by moonlight | Synonyms: moony |
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moonseed | (noun) plant of the family Menispermaceae having red or black fruit with crescent- or ring-shaped seeds | - |
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moonshell | (noun) marine gastropods having smooth rounded shells that form short spires | Synonyms: moon shell |
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moonshine | (noun) whiskey illegally distilled from a corn mash | Synonyms: bootleg, corn liquor |
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(noun) the light of the Moon | Synonyms: Moon, moonlight |
(verb) distill (alcohol) illegally; produce moonshine | - |
moonshiner | (noun) someone who makes or sells illegal liquor | Synonyms: bootlegger |
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moonshot | (noun) an ambitious project with a high chance of failure | - |
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moonstone | (noun) a transparent or translucent gemstone with a pearly luster; some specimens are orthoclase feldspar and others are plagioclase feldspar | - |
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moonstruck | (adjective) insane and believed to be affected by the phases of the moon | Synonyms: lunatic |
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moonwalk | (noun) an exploratory walk by an astronaut on the surface of the moon | - |
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(noun) a kind of dance step in which the dancer seems to be sliding on the spot | - |
moonwort | (noun) of America and Eurasia and Australia | Synonyms: Botrychium lunaria, common moonwort |
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moony | (adjective) lighted by moonlight | Synonyms: moonlit |
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(adjective) dreamy in mood or nature | Synonyms: dreamy, woolgathering |
moor | (noun) open land usually with peaty soil covered with heather and bracken and moss | Synonyms: moorland |
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(verb) secure with cables or ropes | - |
(verb) secure in or as if in a berth or dock | Synonyms: berth, tie up |
(verb) come into or dock at a wharf | Synonyms: berth, wharf |
moorage | (noun) the act of securing an arriving vessel with ropes | Synonyms: dockage, docking, tying up |
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(noun) a place where a craft can be made fast | Synonyms: berth, mooring, slip |
(noun) a fee for mooring | - |
moorbird | (noun) reddish-brown grouse of upland moors of Great Britain | Synonyms: Lagopus scoticus, moor-bird, moorfowl, moorgame, red grouse |
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moorcock | (noun) male red grouse | - |
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moorfowl | (noun) reddish-brown grouse of upland moors of Great Britain | Synonyms: Lagopus scoticus, moor-bird, moorbird, moorgame, red grouse |
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moorgame | (noun) reddish-brown grouse of upland moors of Great Britain | Synonyms: Lagopus scoticus, moor-bird, moorbird, moorfowl, red grouse |
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moorhen | (noun) black gallinule that inhabits ponds and lakes | Synonyms: Gallinula chloropus |
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(noun) female red grouse | - |
mooring | (noun) (nautical) a line that holds an object (especially a boat) in place | Synonyms: mooring line |
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(noun) a place where a craft can be made fast | Synonyms: berth, moorage, slip |
moorland | (noun) open land usually with peaty soil covered with heather and bracken and moss | Synonyms: moor |
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moorwort | (noun) wiry evergreen shrub having pendent clusters of white or pink flowers; of wet acidic areas in Arctic and Canada to northeastern United States | Synonyms: Andromeda glaucophylla, bog rosemary |
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moose | (noun) large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male; called `elk' in Europe and `moose' in North America | Synonyms: Alces alces, elk |
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moosewood | (noun) deciduous shrub of eastern North America having tough flexible branches and pliable bark and small yellow flowers | Synonyms: Dirca palustris, leatherwood, moose-wood, ropebark, wicopy |
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(noun) maple of eastern North America with striped bark and large two-lobed leaves clear yellow in autumn | Synonyms: Acer pennsylvanicum, goosefoot maple, moose-wood, striped dogwood, striped maple |
moot | (adjective) open to argument or debate | Synonyms: arguable, debatable, disputable |
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(adjective) of no legal significance (as having been previously decided) | - |
(noun) a hypothetical case that law students argue as an exercise | - |
(verb) think about carefully; weigh | Synonyms: consider, debate, deliberate, turn over |