moof
/muf/
moof interjection: used to indicate the lowing or barking sound of a dogcow or similar chimeric creature.
Interjection
- Used to indicate the lowing or barking sound of a dogcow or similar chimeric creature.
- Upon closer examination, I discovered that dogcows actually "speak." In a very excited condition, like being near an open can of Mountain Dew, dogcows will say "Boo Woo! Moof!" But it is much more common to hear them just say, "Moof!"1989 April, Mark Harlan, “The Dogcow”, in Machintosh Technical Notes, number 31, Cupertino, California: Apple Computer, archived from the original on 02 Feb 2004
- “And won’t you just cry out and beg for mercy? You know, Alisha dear,” warm breath on him, “I used to think he was just a dog, and then I thought he was a cow, but I think—I know—he’s just a cross between both, a cow and a dog. Cows go moo, dogs go woof, so what does a dogcow go? Moof moof moof. Go...1995, Michael A. Hemmingson, Nice Little Stories Jam-Packed with Depraved Sex & Violence, Denver: CyberPsychos AOD, →ISBN, page 23
Noun
moof (plural moofs)
- A bong (vessel for smoking marijuana).
- What was thought […] to be smoke coming from a badly tuned engine was in reality a pot burning moof!2014, Frank B. Thompson, III, WTF!: This is a Liberal Utopia!
Examples of moof in a sentence
- Everyone knew where the hackers were sitting when they started yelling “Moof! moof!” at the screen—“moof” is the sound the LaserWriter Options dogcow makes.1998 September 3, David Morgenstein, “BMUG Report: The Cupertino Shuffle”, in MicroTimes, volume 7, number 9, Oakland, California: BAM...
- You can predict, we bet, the sound she makes: Moof! (Yes, the Dogcow is a she—as is every cow.2001 June 29, David Pogue, Joseph Schorr, “The inevitable Dogcow sidebar”, in Macworld? Mac? Secrets?, Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley, →ISBN...
- “But it has ten legs and goes ‘moof-moof’,” Eddie joked.2007 March 1, Holly Haggarty, Summer Dragons, Toronto: Dundurn Press, →ISBN, page 99:
Forms of moof
| plural | moofs |
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Origin of moof
Blend of moo (“lowing sound of a cow”) + woof (“barking sound of a dog”). Coined by American computer programmer Mark Harlan in 1987 or 1988 in internal memoranda within Apple Computer. First publicly attested in 1989. Trademarked by Apple from 1992 to 1999 (U.S. Reg. No. 1,695,826).
Words that rhyme with moof
Questions about moof
- What does moof mean?
- Moof means used to indicate the lowing or barking sound of a dogcow or similar chimeric creature.
- How do you use moof in a sentence?
- Everyone knew where the hackers were sitting when they started yelling “Moof! moof!” at the screen—“moof” is the sound the LaserWriter Options dogcow makes.
- What part of speech is moof?
- Moof can be an interjection or a noun.
- How do you pronounce moof?
- Moof is pronounced /muf/.
Words near moof in the dictionary
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