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Moor vs Moob - What's the difference?

moor | moob |

As nouns the difference between moor and moob

is that moor is an extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath while moob is a plump or untoned breast on a man.

As a verb moor

is to cast anchor or become fastened.

moor

English

Usage notes

(more) is not a homophone in Northern UK accents, while (mooer) is homophonous only in those accents.

Etymology 1

(etyl) . See (m).

Noun

(en noun)
  • an extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath
    • A cold, biting wind blew across the moor , and the travellers hastened their step.
  • * Carew
    • In her girlish age she kept sheep on the moor .
  • a game preserve consisting of moorland
    • Derived terms
    * moorland * moortop
    See also
    * bog * marsh * swamp

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cast anchor or become fastened.
  • (nautical) To fix or secure, as a vessel, in a particular place by casting anchor, or by fastening with cables or chains; as, the vessel was moored in the stream''; ''they moored the boat to the wharf .
  • To secure or fix firmly.

    • Anagrams

    * * English terms with multiple etymologies ----

    moob

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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]
    • Yeah, put a shirt on gene, we don't want to see your fatty moobs .
  • * 2007 January 6, The Guardian ,
    • 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.
  • * 2009 , Will Self, Ralph Steadman, Psycho too , page 242:
    • 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, [...]

    External links

    * (gynecomastia)

    References

    * "Moobs" in Alison James, The 10 Women You'll Be Before You're 35 , Polka Dot Press (2005), ISBN 1593372779, page 83: "Man boobs. Stay away from guys in the bar who are younger than 45 but have visible moobs." * "Moobs" in C Sanchez, "The Favour House", "Dom had the biggest moobs I had ever seen"

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