moe

From Japanese 萌え (moe, “budding, sprouting”), imperfective or continuative form of 萌える (moeru, “to burst into bud, to sprout”), from a kun reading of the Han character 萌 (“bud, sprout”).

Wikipe-tan, a moe personification of Wikipedia

• moé

• (UK) IPA^(key): /məʊ.eɪ/

moe (uncountable)

1. (slang) Strong interest in, and especially fetishistic attraction towards, fictional characters in anime, manga, video games, and/or similar media.

• figure moe zoku
• moe anthropomorphism

• moekko
• moe sangyo
• moetan

• Moe (slang) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Variant forms.

moe

1. Obsolete form of mo.
2. Obsolete form of more.
   • William Shakespeare

     Sing no more ditties, sing no moe.

   • George Gascoigne

     The crafty courtiers with their guileful looks,
     Must needs put some experience in my maw:
     Yet cannot these with many mast'ries moe
     Make me shoot straight at any gainful prick […]

moe

1. Obsolete form of mow (“wry face, grimace”).
2. Obsolete form of moa.

moe

1. Obsolete form of moo.
2. Obsolete form of mow (“to make faces”).

• 'ome, -ome, EOM, Emo, Meo, OEM, OME, emo

• IPA^(key): /mu/

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• Hyphenation: moe
• Rhymes: -u

From moede with loss of -d-, from Middle Dutch moede (“tired, loath”), from Old Dutch muothi (“tired”), from Proto-Germanic *mōþaz. Cognate to German müde and Old English mēþe.

moe (comparative moeër or moeier, superlative moest)

1. tired, weary

   Synonym: vermoeid

This word is usually used predicatively rather than attributively. If an attributive sense is needed, most people use vermoeid. The forms moeie and moeier are often proscribed. The form moede is mostly formal.

• moede

Shortening of moeder.

moe f (plural moeken, diminutive moeke n or moetje n)

1. (informal, dialectal) mother

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian (compare Fijian moce, Indonesian pejam, Maori moe).

moe

1. to sleep

moe

1. Rōmaji transcription of もえ

moe

1. house

• Alexandre François, The languages of Vanikoro: three lexicons and one grammar

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian (compare Fijian moce, Indonesian pejam, Hawaiian moe).

moe

1. to sleep

moe f (oblique plural moes, nominative singular moe, nominative plural moes)

1. mouth

• French: moue

See here.

moe

1. sleep
2. lie down

moe

1. sleep

• potumoe

Borrowed from Dutch moeten.

moe

1. must
2. have to
3. should

moe

1. sleep

Archaic; use taʻoto.