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mo.

To a greater degree.

2 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

adv/məʊ/UK/moʊ/US
  1. To a greater degree.

    not-comparable · obsolete
  2. Further, longer.

    dialectal · not-comparable
Where this word comes from

From Middle English mo, from Old English mā, from Proto-Germanic *maiz, from a comparative form of Proto-Indo-European *meh₂-. Cognate with Swedish mer, Danish mer; and with Irish mó, Albanian më. See also more, most.

adj/məʊ/UK/moʊ/US
  1. Greater in amount, quantity, or number (of discrete objects, as opposed to more, which was applied to substances)

    archaic · dialectal · not-comparable
Where this word comes from

From Middle English mo, from Old English mā, from Proto-Germanic *maiz, from a comparative form of Proto-Indo-European *meh₂-. Cognate with Swedish mer, Danish mer; and with Irish mó, Albanian më. See also more, most.

symbol/məʊ/UK/moʊ/US
  1. month

    12 yr 4 mo 17 d
Where this word comes from

Clipping of month.

noun/məʊ/UK/moʊ/US
  1. A homosexual.

    slang
Where this word comes from

Clipping of homo, itself a short form of homosexual.

noun/məʊ/UK/moʊ/US
  1. A moustache.

    Australia · New-Zealand · colloquial
Where this word comes from

Clipping of moustache.

noun/məʊ/UK/moʊ/US
  1. A molester.

    slang
Where this word comes from

Clipping.

noun/məʊ/UK/moʊ/US
  1. A moron.

    slang
Where this word comes from

Clipping.

num/məʊ/UK/moʊ/US
  1. The cardinal number occurring after el gro el do el (↋↋↋) and before mo one (1001) in a duodecimal system. Written 1000, decimal value 1728.

Where this word comes from

From mil, by analogy with do and gro.

noun/məʊ/UK/moʊ/US
  1. Clipping of moment.

    abbreviation · alt-of · clipping · colloquial · uncountable
    Hang on a mo!
adj/məʊ/UK/moʊ/US
  1. Alternative form of mo' (“more”).

    alt-of · alternative · dialectal · not-comparable
    Yo, you got mo chips?
Where this word comes from

Non-rhotic pronunciation of more. Only coincidentally similar to sense 1 above. Compare fo' (“for; four”), ho (“whore”).

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