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発音

• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈmuːkaʊ/

名詞

moo-cow (複数形 moo-cows)

1. (childish or endearing) A cow.
   • 1914, Irvin S. Cobb, Europe Revised

     At the end of the line nearest the Arch, under a flary light, stood an old bearded man having the look on his face of a kindly but somewhat irritated moo-cow.

   • 1916 December 29, James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, OCLC 1881984:

     Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo […]