"moo-moo" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: En-au-moo_moo.ogg [Australia] Forms: moo-moos [plural]
Etymology: Onomatopoeic Etymology templates: {{onomatopoeia|en}} Onomatopoeic Head templates: {{en-noun}} moo-moo (plural moo-moos)
  1. (childish) A cow. Tags: childish Synonyms: moomoo, moo moo Translations ((childish) cow): կովիկ (kovik) (Armenian), 牛牛 (alt: ngau⁴ ngau⁴⁻²) (Chinese Cantonese), koetje [neuter] (Dutch), koebeest [neuter] (Dutch), koetje-boe [neuter] (Dutch), ammu (Finnish), meumeu [feminine] (French), Muhkuh [feminine] (German), 牛さん (ushisan) (Japanese), モーモー (mōmō) (Japanese), vaquinha [feminine] (Portuguese), коро́вка (koróvka) [feminine] (Russian), vaquita [feminine] (Spanish), kossa [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-moo-moo-en-noun-BIz2nE0- Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English onomatopoeias, English reduplicated coordinated pairs, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 50 50 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 48 52 Disambiguation of English reduplicated coordinated pairs: 52 48 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 52 48
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun

Forms: moo-moos [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} moo-moo (plural moo-moos)
  1. Alternative form of muumuu Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: muumuu
    Sense id: en-moo-moo-en-noun-qAJSKmOe Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English reduplicated coordinated pairs, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 50 50 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 48 52 Disambiguation of English reduplicated coordinated pairs: 52 48 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 52 48
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

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