moot

adj

/muːt//ˈmʊt/

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.

derived from *meh₂d-✻ — “to encounter, come”
inherited from *mōtą✻
inherited from *mōt✻
inherited from mōt

Definitions

1
Subject to discussion (originally at a moot)
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
Being an exercise of thought; academic.
3
Having no practical consequence or relevance.
- That point may make for a good discussion, but it is moot.
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1. 4
  A moot court.
  - The pleading used in courts and chancery called moots.
2. A system of arbitration in many areas of Africa in which the primary goal is to settle a…
  A system of arbitration in many areas of Africa in which the primary goal is to settle a dispute and reintegrate adversaries into society rather than assess penalties.
3. A gathering of Rovers, usually in the form of a camp lasting two weeks.
4. A social gathering of pagans, normally held in a public house.
5. An assembly (usually for decision-making in a locality).
6. A ring for gauging wooden pins.
7. 10
  To bring up as a subject for debate.
  - The general idea was first mooted a couple of years ago by Philip Hammond, then Britain’s chancellor of the exchequer, as a means of encouraging the EU to strike a friendly Brexit deal with the UK.
8. 11
  To discuss or debate.
  - a problem which hardly has been mentioned, far less mooted, in this country
  - First a case is appointed to be mooted by certain young men, containing some doubtful controversy.
  - An elevated cycleway connecting Los Angeles and Pasadena was mooted as early as 1896 …
9. To make or declare irrelevant.
10. 13
  To argue or plead in a supposed case.
  - There is a difference between mooting and pleading; between fencing and fighting.
11. 14
  To talk or speak.
  - In that mater now I will mute no moir.
12. To say, utter, also insinuate.
13. A whisper, or an insinuation, also gossip or rumors.
14. Talk.
15. The vagina.
16. 19
  The stump of a tree
  The stump of a tree; the roots and bottom end of a felled tree.
  - 'Ithin the woodlands, flow'ry gleäded, / By the woak tree's mossy moot
17. To take root and begin to grow.
18. 21
  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.
19. 22
  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.
  - RT: hi..jst joined #edtwt! let’s be moots and rt each other

The neighborhood

neighbormeet

Derived

moot court, mootness, moot point, ward moot, entmoot, folkmoot, gemoot, moot hall, moothill, mootie, mootman, moot-stow, tun-moot, mootable, mooter

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for moot. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA