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moer

moer verb: to beat; to thrash.

Verb

moer (third-person singular simple present moers, present participle moering, simple past and past participle moered)

  1. (South Africa, transitive) To beat; to thrash.

Noun

moer (plural moers)

  1. (South Africa) Something big or powerful; a whopper; a hell of a thing.
    • Lying dead on the surface of the Monument dam was a moer of a big carp.2003, Justin Nurse, Chris Verrijdt, Laugh it Off Annual: South African Youth Culture, volume 1, page 71
    • “Some of the teams are coming in,” he said. “They had a moer of a contact. Get your cameras and let's go.”2013, Jim Hooper, Koevoet: Experiencing South Africa's Deadly Bush War, page 239

Forms of moer

Verb
third-person singular presentmoers
present participlemoering
past participlemoered
pastmoered
Noun
pluralmoers

Origin of moer

Borrowed from Afrikaans moer.

Questions about moer

What does moer mean?
Moer means to beat; to thrash.
What part of speech is moer?
Moer can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of moer?
The past tense of moer is moered.

Words near moer in the dictionary

  1. Moenkopi Wash
  2. moenomycin
  3. moenomycins
  4. moepel
  5. moepels
  6. moer
  7. Moeran
  8. Moerdijk
  9. moered
  10. moeriki
  11. moering

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