Moose

//muːs// name, noun, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    An English surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    The largest member of the deer family (Alces americanus, sometimes included in Alces alces), of which the male has very large, palmate antlers.

    "We saw a moose at the edge of the woods."

  2. 2
    An Asian girl taken as a lover. US, slang

    "In military bases in the rear areas it was common for soldiers to have a moose."

  3. 3
    A Muslim. derogatory, slang, slur
  4. 4
    large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male; called ‘elk’ in Europe and ‘moose’ in North America wordnet
  5. 5
    Any of the extinct moose-like deer of the genera Cervalces and Libralces.

    "Europe’s giant beavers lived at the same time as the first moose, Libralces gallicus."

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  1. 6
    An ugly person. colloquial, derogatory, figuratively

Etymology

Etymology 1

Earlier mus, moos, from an Eastern Algonquian language name for the animal, such as Massachusett moos, mws, Narragansett moos or Penobscot mos (cognate to Abenaki moz), from Proto-Algonquian *mo·swa (“it strips”), referring to how a moose strips tree bark when feeding: compare Massachusett moos-u (“he strips, cuts smooth”).

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Japanese むすめ (“daughter”).

Etymology 3

* Americanized form of German Moos. * Translation and shortening of a Native American name with a word meaning “moose”, such as Dakota ta.

Etymology 4

Alteration of Muslim with moose.

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