"moob" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /muːb/ Audio: En-au-moob.ogg [Australia] Forms: moobs [plural]
Rhymes: -uːb Etymology: Blend of man + boob. Etymology templates: {{blend|en|man|boob}} Blend of man + boob Head templates: {{en-noun}} moob (plural moobs)
  1. (slang, usually in the plural) A plump or untoned breast on a man. Tags: plural-normally, slang Synonyms: man boob Translations (male breast): chipstutte [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-moob-en-noun-FKIMU4A1 Categories (other): English blends
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun [English]

IPA: /muːb/ Audio: En-au-moob.ogg [Australia] Forms: moobs [plural]
Rhymes: -uːb Etymology: Inversion of boom (“to rapidly adjust the evaluation of a position away from zero, indicating a likely win or loss”). Etymology templates: {{m|en|boom||to rapidly adjust the evaluation of a position away from zero, indicating a likely win or loss}} boom (“to rapidly adjust the evaluation of a position away from zero, indicating a likely win or loss”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} moob (plural moobs)
  1. (chess engines) An instance of moobing. Categories (topical): Chess
    Sense id: en-moob-en-noun-Cq7ARbNJ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 25 46 29
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Verb [English]

IPA: /muːb/ Audio: En-au-moob.ogg [Australia] Forms: moobs [present, singular, third-person], moobing [participle, present], moobed [participle, past], moobed [past]
Rhymes: -uːb Etymology: Inversion of boom (“to rapidly adjust the evaluation of a position away from zero, indicating a likely win or loss”). Etymology templates: {{m|en|boom||to rapidly adjust the evaluation of a position away from zero, indicating a likely win or loss}} boom (“to rapidly adjust the evaluation of a position away from zero, indicating a likely win or loss”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} moob (third-person singular simple present moobs, present participle moobing, simple past and past participle moobed)
  1. (chess engines) To rapidly adjust the evaluation of a position towards zero, indicating a likely draw. Categories (topical): Chess
    Sense id: en-moob-en-verb-nZVTAqO~
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

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      "audio": "En-au-moob.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/3c/En-au-moob.ogg/En-au-moob.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/En-au-moob.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "moob"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-10 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (a644e18 and edd475d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.