Tuesday, May 31, 2016

mood, mooed

Mood or mood means a passing state of mind or emotion --
Don't try to talk to him; he's in a bad mood.
Let's watch a movie; I'm in the mood for a thriller.

Mooed or mooed ( rhymes with mood ) is the past tense ( yesterday, or some time ago ) of "moo", meaning, said of a cow, to make a bellowing sound --
We tried to get the cow to move out of the road, but she just mooed at us.
Bossy mooed a greeting to the farmer when he entered the barn.

Now that you know that, you can say--
"The old cow was in no mood for nonsense, and mooed angrily to tell us so."

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