moot

Etymology 1
From, , from , , from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬, , archaic Dutch , 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Related to.

Adjective

 * 1)  Subject to discussion (originally at a moot); arguable, debatable, unsolved or impossible to solve.
 * 2) * 1770,, The Endeavour Journal of Sir Joseph Banks, January 4, 1770 (published 1962):
 * :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:
 * 1)  Being an exercise of thought; academic.
 * 2)  Having no practical consequence or relevance.
 * 1)  Being an exercise of thought; academic.
 * 2)  Having no practical consequence or relevance.
 * 1)  Having no practical consequence or relevance.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: discutible
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, , ; kiistakysymys
 * French:
 * German:, ,
 * Hungarian:, , , függőben lévő, , , vita tárgyává tehető
 * Italian:, ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: discutível
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish: ,
 * Ukrainian: спі́рний


 * Catalan:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:, asian vierestä
 * French: non pertinent, ,
 * German:, , rein akademisch
 * Hungarian:, , , , , pusztán elméleti,
 * Maori: hape
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, ,

Noun

 * 1) A moot court.
 * 2) 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 2 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.
 * 1)  A ring for gauging wooden pins.

Etymology 2
From, from , from , a suffixed derivative of. Related to etymology 1. See also (which is a frequentative of moot).

Verb

 * 1) To bring up as a subject for debate, to propose.
 * 2) To discuss or debate.
 * 3)   To make or declare irrelevant.
 * 4) To argue or plead in a supposed case.
 * 5)  To talk or speak.
 * 6)  To say, utter, also insinuate.
 * 1)   To make or declare irrelevant.
 * 2) To argue or plead in a supposed case.
 * 3)  To talk or speak.
 * 4)  To say, utter, also insinuate.
 * 1)  To talk or speak.
 * 2)  To say, utter, also insinuate.
 * 1)  To say, utter, also insinuate.

Usage notes
In the fifth sense, usually found in the archaic phrase no boot to moot, as in: it's no boot to moot with her (it is no use to talk/reason/plead with her).

In rural northern dialects of the UK, usually used together with the verbs and, where  is used instead of  and ;  used instead of  and ; and  instead of  and. The verb in the sense to talk, say, utter etc., is part of an informal in-group speak or register wherein speakers (mostly of northern dialects) use this and the above-mentioned words when talking with one another and when talking with outsiders or strangers they, usually, only use the words like say, talk, speak etc. For example, if a mother is talking with her child she is much more likely to use words like moot, mell and spell, however if she is speaking with a stranger from the South she is extremely unlikely to use such words. Also, such words are usually considered taboo in formal contexts.

Noun

 * 1)  A whisper, or an insinuation, also gossip or rumors.
 * 2)  Talk.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: повдигам въпрос
 * Catalan:
 * Czech:, (k diskusi)
 * Dutch: ter discussie stellen, ter tafel brengen, ter sprake brengen
 * Finnish: tuoda keskusteluun, ,
 * German: zur Debatte stellen, zur Diskussion stellen,, in Frage stellen
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Russian: ста́вить вопро́с на обсужде́ние
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Ukrainian: підніма́ти пита́ння

Etymology 3
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Noun

 * 1)  Vagina.

Etymology 4
From.

Noun

 * 1)  The stump of a tree; the roots and bottom end of a felled tree.

Verb

 * 1)  To take root and begin to grow.
 * 2)  To turn up soil or dig up roots, especially an animal with a snout.

Etymology 5
with humorously altered pronunciation.

Noun

 * 1)  A mutual follower on a social media platform.
 * 2) * 2020, @healer_katara, "Café au Twitter", ZaofuToday, Issue 1, page 10:
 * Eid Mubarak to all my muslim moots out there
 * 1) * 2021, @DIORJAEYUN, "NCity Small Business", EnVi, Winter 2021, page 222:
 * I just simply post them in my main Twitter account, then hoping that my moots will like and retweet them.
 * 1) * 2022, anonymous, quoted in Fayika Farhat Nova et al., "Cultivating the Community: Inferring Influence Within Eating Disorder Networks on Twitter", Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, January 2022 (article link):
 * RT: hi..jst joined #edtwt! let’s be moots and rt each other

Etymology
Ultimately related to 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) A thick slice or a cut, especially of fish.
 * 2)  A chunk of any whole; a part.