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- verb Present participle of
moo . - noun The action of the verb moo; a mooing sound.
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Examples
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As soon as you decide to cook Cheese it needs to be slightly burnt – meat, yeah, rare, raw, still mooing is good unless it’s a pig, then not!
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Frosya tried to get her mouth round the word, but it came out shapeless, in a kind of mooing noise.
Calling A Dead Man Cross, Gillian 2001
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But this 'mooing' sound, in which so many of their words ended, was not altogether pleasing to the Roman ear.
The Roman Pronunciation of Latin Why we use it and how to use it Frances Ellen Lord
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There are many accounts of ghostly cows heard "mooing" in the moors and bog-lands of Scotland and Ireland respectively, and not a few cases of whole herds of phantom cattle seen, gliding along, one behind the other, with silent, noiseless tread.
Animal Ghosts Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter Elliott O'Donnell 1918
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Strange as it may seem, the "mooing" of a cow on a mountain-side comes nearest to my idea of the voice of a bear; and this bird's note resembled that.
The Maine Woods 1858
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I'd probably have to ask what kind of mooing it was and did it come sound more like a Holstein or a Guernsey??
Saying yes... 2008
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"mooing" coming from the back of Derby's home and Coyne thought it might have been from one of his cattle.
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"mooing" apparently was only the sounds of the animals still in their cages on Derby's truck.
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We think of natural things: bamboo banging, cows mooing.
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Mr. Madsen gave up and dropped his arms just as the tuba finally emitted a sound—a deep, forlorn mooing sound.
Bubble in the Bathtub Jo Nesbo 2011
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