moot

== English == === Etymology 1 === From Middle English mōt, ȝemōt, from Old English *mōt, ġemōt (“meeting”), from Proto-Germanic *mōtą, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- (“to encounter, come”). Cognate with Scots mut, mote (“meeting, assembly”), Low German Mööt (“meeting”), Moot (“meeting”), archaic Dutch (ge)moet (“meeting”), Danish møde (“meeting”), Swedish möte (“meeting”), Norwegian møte (“meeting”), Icelandic mót (“meeting, tournament, meet”). Related to meet. The adjective derives from the noun. ==== Pronunciation ==== enPR: mo͞ot, IPA(key): /muːt/ Rhymes: -uːt ==== Adjective ==== moot (comparative more moot, superlative most moot) (current in UK, rare in the US) Subject to discussion (originally at a moot); arguable, debatable, unsolved or impossible to solve. 1770, Joseph Banks, The Endeavour Journal of Sir Joseph Banks, January 4, 1770 (published 1962): […] :indeed we were obligd to hawl off rather in a hurry for the wind freshning a little we found ourselves in a bay which it was a moot point whether or not we could get out of: […] (Canada, US, chiefly law) Being an exercise of thought; academic. (Canada, US, uncommon in the UK) Having no practical consequence or relevance. Synonyms: irrelevant, (if it was previously relevant) obsolete ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Related terms ===== ===== Translations ===== ==== Noun ==== moot (plural moots) A moot court. A system of arbitration in many areas of Africa in which the primary goal is to settle a dispute and reintegrate adversaries into society rather than assess penalties. (scouting) A gathering of Rovers, usually in the form of a camp lasting two weeks. (paganism) A social gathering of pagans, normally held in a public house. (historical) An assembly (usually for decision-making in a locality). [from the 12th c.] (shipbuilding) A ring for gauging wooden pins. ===== Derived terms ===== === Etymology 2 === From Middle English moten (“to speak, talk, converse, discuss”), from Old English mōtian (“to speak, converse, discuss”), from Proto-Germanic *mōtijaną (“to meet, encounter”), a suffixed derivative of *mōtą (“meeting”). Related to etymology 1. See also mutter (which is a frequentative of moot). ==== Verb ==== moot (third-person singular simple present moots, present participle mooting, simple past and past participle mooted) To bring up as a subject for debate. Synonyms: table, propose To discuss or debate. Synonyms: bespeak, talk about, treat; see also Thesaurus:discuss (US) To make or declare irrelevant. To argue or plead in a supposed case. (regional, obsolete) To talk or speak. Synonyms: jabber, say; see also Thesaurus:speak (Scotland, Northern England) To say, utter, also insinuate. Synonyms: hint, indicate; see also Thesaurus:allude ===== Usage notes ===== In the fifth sense, usually found in the archaic phrase no boot to moot, as in: it's no boot to moot with her (it is no use to talk/reason/plead with her). In rural northern dialects of the UK, usually used together with the verbs mell and spell, where moot is used instead of talk and say; mell used instead of speak and converse; and spell instead of tell and relate. The verb moot in the sense to talk, say, utter etc., is part of an informal in-group speak or register wherein speakers (mostly of northern dialects) use this and the above-mentioned words when talking with one another and when talking with outsiders or strangers they, usually, only use the words like say, talk, speak etc. For example, if a mother is talking with her child she is much more likely to use words like moot, mell and spell, however if she is speaking with a stranger from the South she is extremely unlikely to use such words. Also, such words are usually considered taboo in formal contexts. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== ==== Noun ==== moot (countable and uncountable, plural moots) (Scotland, Northern England) A whisper, or an insinuation, also gossip or rumors. (Scotland, Northern England, rustic) Talk. ===== References ===== Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “mōtian”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press. “mọ̄ten, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007. “moot, v., n.1”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC. ==== Further reading ==== Moot hall on Wikipedia.Wikipedia === Etymology 3 === Unknown. ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /ˈmʊt/ ==== Noun ==== moot (plural moots) (Australia) The vagina. ==== References ==== The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, 2005, →ISBN, page vol. 2, p. 1320 === Etymology 4 === From Dutch moot (“piece”). ==== Noun ==== moot (plural moots) (West Country) The stump of a tree; the roots and bottom end of a felled tree. ===== Derived terms ===== moot-axe, mooting-axe moot earth moot-end ==== Verb ==== moot (third-person singular simple present moots, present participle mooting, simple past and past participle mooted) (West Country) To take root and begin to grow. (West Country) To turn up soil or dig up roots, especially an animal with a snout. === Etymology 5 === Clipping of mutual with humorously altered pronunciation. ==== Noun ==== moot (plural moots) (Internet slang, endearing) A mutual follower on a social media platform. 2020, @healer_katara, "Café au Twitter", ZaofuToday, Issue 1, page 10: Eid Mubarak to all my muslim moots out there 2021, @DIORJAEYUN, "NCity Small Business", EnVi, Winter 2021, page 222: I just simply post them in my main Twitter account, then hoping that my moots will like and retweet them. 2022, anonymous, quoted in Fayika Farhat Nova et al., "Cultivating the Community: Inferring Influence Within Eating Disorder Networks on Twitter", Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, January 2022 (article link): RT: hi..jst joined #edtwt! let’s be moots and rt each other For more quotations using this term, see Citations:moot. ===== See also ===== OOMF ==== References ==== Wright, Joseph (1903), The English Dialect Dictionary‎[5], volume 4, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 157 === Anagrams === MOTO, moto, moto-, tomo-, toom == Central Bikol == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /moˈʔot/ [moˈʔot] Hyphenation: mo‧ot === Noun === mòot (Basahan spelling ᜋᜓᜂᜆ᜔) misspelling of muot == Dutch == === Etymology === Ultimately related to Proto-Germanic *maitaną. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term, particularly: === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -oːt === Noun === moot m (plural moten, diminutive mootje n) a thick slice or a cut, especially of fish (by extension) a chunk of any whole; a part ==== Derived terms ==== hoofdmoot (“main part, plurality, majority”) zalmmoot (“salmon chunk”) ==== Descendants ==== → Papiamentu: mochi (from the diminutive) === Anagrams === toom