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"To a greater degree."
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"ref": "c. 1380, William Langland, Piers Plowman",
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"(colloquial) Clipping of moment."
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"ref": "2018, James Kühnel, Carceration State",
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"ref": "1997, “Detox”, in City, performed by Strapping Young Lad",
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{
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"English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English numerals",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English two-letter words",
"Rhymes:English/əʊ",
"Rhymes:English/əʊ/1 syllable"
],
"etymology_number": 8,
"etymology_text": "Clipping.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "mos",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "mo (plural mos)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English slang",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1997, “Detox”, in City, performed by Strapping Young Lad",
"text": "Hey, you mo! Hey, you mo! Hey, you mo! Hey, you mo!",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A moron."
],
"links": [
[
"moron",
"moron"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(slang) A moron."
],
"tags": [
"slang"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/məʊ/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/moʊ/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-əʊ"
},
{
"audio": "en-au-mo.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/5e/En-au-mo.ogg/En-au-mo.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5e/En-au-mo.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
},
{
"enpr": "mō"
}
],
"word": "mo"
}
{
"categories": [
"English 1-syllable words",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"English lemmas",
"English numerals",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English two-letter words",
"Rhymes:English/əʊ",
"Rhymes:English/əʊ/1 syllable"
],
"etymology_number": 9,
"etymology_text": "From mil, by analogy with do and gro.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "numeral"
},
"expansion": "mo",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "num",
"related": [
{
"word": "do"
},
{
"word": "gro"
},
{
"word": "ang mo"
},
{
"word": "big mo"
},
{
"word": "eeny-meeny-miney-mo"
},
{
"word": "fast-mo"
},
{
"word": "half a mo"
},
{
"word": "ke-mo sah-bee"
},
{
"word": "mo-cap"
},
{
"word": "mo-di"
},
{
"word": "mo-mo"
},
{
"word": "mo-ped"
},
{
"word": "mo qua"
},
{
"word": "mo shu"
},
{
"word": "po-mo"
},
{
"word": "slo-mo"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"The cardinal number occurring after el gro el do el (↋↋↋) and before mo one (1001) in a duodecimal system. Written 1000, decimal value 1728."
],
"links": [
[
"cardinal number",
"cardinal number"
],
[
"el",
"el"
],
[
"gro",
"gro"
],
[
"do",
"do"
],
[
"one",
"one"
],
[
"duodecimal",
"duodecimal"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/məʊ/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/moʊ/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-əʊ"
},
{
"audio": "en-au-mo.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/5e/En-au-mo.ogg/En-au-mo.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5e/En-au-mo.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
},
{
"enpr": "mō"
}
],
"word": "mo"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-24 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (82c8ff9 and f4967a5). 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.
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