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moolike en · ADJ

Etymology

From moo + -like.

Meanings

1. Resembling or characteristic of a moo.
   • 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:
   • Their mating calls are more moolike; in combat, a deep lowing and growling. 1958, Science Digest, page 28:
   • 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:
   • […] 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:
   • “Wanna come along?” she’d demand with a moolike bellow, followed by a tornado of laughter. 1963, Country Beautiful, page 56:
   • It has a moolike quality, and shows marked resonance zones […]. 1963, Behaviour, E. J. Brill, page 68:

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