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moolike

moolike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a moo.

Adjective

moolike (comparative more moolike, superlative most moolike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a moo.
    • Their mating calls are more moolike; in combat, a deep lowing and growling.1958, Science Digest, page 28
    • It has a moolike quality, and shows marked resonance zones […].1963, Behaviour, E. J. Brill, page 68

Examples of moolike in a sentence

  • “Wanna come along?” she’d demand with a moolike bellow, followed by a tornado of laughter.1963, Country Beautiful, page 56:
  • While, as noted, a female may utter moolike calls to attract the attention of bulls, she chooses her suitor by boldly entering his refuge.1983, Sigmund A. Lavine, Wonders of Hippos, Dodd, Mead, →ISBN, page 59:
  • […] hung up the phone, the woman’s bovine voice still resonating moolike in my head.1990 January 27, Itabari Njeri, Every Good-bye Ain't Gone: Family Portraits and Personal Escapades, Times Books, →ISBN, page 198:
  • I learned a number of pain relief methods in childbirth class, including a dubious combination of deep breathing and low, moolike moaning that I came to think of as the Asthmatic Cow Technique.2006, Glamour, volume 104, Condé Nast, page 114:

Forms of moolike

comparativemore moolike
superlativemost moolike

Origin of moolike

From moo + -like.

Questions about moolike

What does moolike mean?
Moolike means resembling or characteristic of a moo.
How do you use moolike in a sentence?
“Wanna come along?” she’d demand with a moolike bellow, followed by a tornado of laughter.
What part of speech is moolike?
Moolike is an adjective.

Words near moolike in the dictionary

  1. mooley
  2. mooleys
  3. mooli
  4. moolie
  5. moolies
  6. moolike
  7. moolinyan
  8. moolinyans
  9. moolis
  10. moollah
  11. moollahs

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