moot
adjective
- irrelevant
noun
- type of law school activity
verb
- consider, think carefully
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /muːt/
adj
Etymology: From Middle English mōt, ȝemōt, from Old English *mōt, ġemōt (“meeting”), from Proto-Germanic *mōtą, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- (“to encounter, come”). Cognate with Scots mut, mote (“meeting, assembly”), Low German Mööt (“meeting”), Moot (“meeting”), archaic Dutch (ge)moet (“meeting”), Danish møde (“meeting”), Swedish möte (“meeting”), Norwegian møte (“meeting”), Icelandic mót (“meeting, tournament, meet”). Related to meet. The adjective derives from the noun.
- Subject to discussion (originally at a moot); arguable, debatable, unsolved or impossible to solve.
“[…] :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.”
- Being an exercise of thought; academic.
- Having no practical consequence or relevance.
“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.”
noun
Etymology: Clipping of mutual with humorously altered pronunciation.
- A mutual follower on a social media platform.
“Eid Mubarak to all my muslim moots out there”
“I just simply post them in my main Twitter account, then hoping that my moots will like and retweet them.”
verb
Etymology: From Dutch moot (“piece”).
- To take root and begin to grow.
- To turn up soil or dig up roots, especially an animal with a snout.
“"Zarch tha whole worl', vrom Guenever / To Squier Mules' ta Muddever, / Moot iv'ry brack about un.”