moot
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Is moot a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (current in UK, rare in the US) Subject to discussion (originally at a moot); arguable, debatable, unsolved or impossible to solve.Examples: "[…] :indeed we were obligd to hawl off rather in a hurry for the wind freshning a little we found ourselves in a bay which it was a moot point whether or not we could get out of: […]"; "[T]he uncertain, unsettled condition of this science of Cetology is in the very vestibule attested by the fact, that in some quarters it still remains a moot point whether a whale be a fish."; "The extent to which these Parisian radicals ‘represented’ the French people as a whole was very moot."rare
2. (Canada, US, chiefly law) Being an exercise of thought; academic.CanadaUS
3. (Canada, US) Having no practical consequence or relevance.Examples: "That point may make for a good discussion, but it is moot."; "The question [whether certain poetry was present in the original Hebrew Psalms] in our own time is moot, since various considerations have made it certain that, of all the hazards presented by biblical translation, a dangerous excess of beauty is not one of them."Synonyms: irrelevant, obsoleteCanadaUS
noun (English)
1. (scouting) A gathering of Rovers, usually in the form of a camp lasting two weeks.
2. (paganism) A social gathering of pagans, normally held in a public house.
3. (historical) An assembly (usually for decision-making in a locality).historical
4. (shipbuilding) A ring for gauging wooden pins.
verb (English)
1. (US) To make or declare irrelevant.US
2. (regional, obsolete) To talk or speak.Examples: "In that mater now I will mute no moir."obsoleteregional
3. (Scotland, Northern England) To say, utter, also insinuate.Northern-EnglandScotland
noun (English)
1. (Scotland, Northern England) A whisper, or an insinuation, also gossip or rumors.Northern-EnglandScotlandcountableuncountable
2. (Scotland, Northern England, rustic) Talk.Northern-EnglandScotlandcountableuncountable
noun (English)
1. (Australia) The vagina.Australia
noun (English)
1. (West Country) The stump of a tree; the roots and bottom end of a felled tree.Examples: "'Ithin the woodlands, flow'ry gleäded, / By the woak tree's mossy moot"West-Country
Definition source: Wiktionary