moos

1. 1
   verb

   Third-person singular simple present of moo.

   Whenever the gate opens, the old cow moos and ambles toward the trough.

   The heifer moos anxiously each time her calf wanders out of sight.

   Note

   An intransitive verb, so this form stands without an object: the cow moos, not the cow moos a sound. In its plain use the subject is a cow or a bull, and anything else that moos is being likened to cattle. The spelling matches the plural noun, so the calf moos is a statement while the calf's moos names sounds.

2. 2
   noun

   Plural of moo.

   The valley carried the distant moos of cattle drifting home for the night.

   A chorus of impatient moos rose from the pen as the truck of hay pulled in.

   Note

   Every noun spelled moo shares this plural, so moos is not only the sound of cattle. In British slang a moo is a foolish woman, a mildly derogatory word, and two such women are moos as well. The initialisms take the same -s, as in MOOs, the object-oriented MUDs. The spelling is also the present-tense verb, so context decides whether moos names sounds or an action.

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