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MOOF

Specialty Definition: MOOF

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Moof /moof/ [Macintosh users] 1. n. The call of a semi-legendary creature, properly called the dogcow. (Some previous versions of this entry claimed, incorrectly, that Moof was the name of the _creature_.) 2. adj. Used to flag software that's a hack, something untested and on the edge. On one Apple CD-ROM, certain folders such as "Tools & Apps (Moof!)" and "Development Platforms (Moof!)", are so marked to indicate that they contain software not fully tested or sanctioned by the powers that be. When you open these folders you cross the boundary into hackerland. 3. v. On the Microsoft Network, the term `moof' has gained popularity as a verb meaning `to be suddenly disconnected by the system'. One might say "I got moofed". Source: Jargon File.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: MOOF

Specialty definitions using "MOOF": dogcowVentilate a Subject. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: MOOF

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

moof

10
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: MOOF

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "f-m-o-o"

-1 letter: moo.

-2 letters: mo, of, om.

 Words containing the letters "f-m-o-o"
 

+2 letters: formol.

 

+3 letters: comfort, conform, doomful, folkmot, footman, footmen, formols, mafioso, monofil, mouflon, oviform, roomful, tomfool.

 

+4 letters: coliform, comforts, conforms, fireroom, folkmoot, folkmote, folkmots, footmark, foreboom, foredoom, foremost, formwork, foursome, gloomful, iodoform, mafiosos, monofils, monofuel, mooncalf, moonfish, moorfowl, moufflon, mouflons, omniform, postform, roomfuls, rotiform, tomfools.

 

+5 letters: bombproof, coliforms, comforted, comforter, commodify, conformal, conformed, conformer, cordiform, doomfully, firerooms, folkmoots, folkmotes, footmarks, forebooms, foredooms, forewoman, forewomen, formation, formworks, foursomes, germproof, homograft, iodoforms, microform, monofuels, moonfaced, moorfowls, mothproof, moufflons, mycoflora, nonformal, postforms, proofroom, womenfolk.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: MOOF


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 4F 4F 46

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01001111 01001111 01000110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#79 &#79 &#70

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 004F 004F 0046

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

47494940

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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