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adj/muːt/
  1. 1

    Subject to discussion (originally at a moot); arguable, debatable, unsolved or impossible to solve.rare

    • […] :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: […]
  2. 2

    Being an exercise of thought; academic.CanadaUS

  3. 3

    Having no practical consequence or relevance.CanadaUSuncommon

    • That point may make for a good discussion, but it is moot.
noun/muːt/
  1. 1

    A moot court.

    • The pleading used in courts and chancery called moots.
  2. 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. 3

    A gathering of Rovers, usually in the form of a camp lasting two weeks.

  4. 4

    A social gathering of pagans, normally held in a public house.

  5. 5

    An assembly (usually for decision-making in a locality).historical

  6. 6

    A ring for gauging wooden pins.

verb
  1. 1

    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.
  2. 2

    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.
  3. 3

    To make or declare irrelevant.US

  4. 4

    To argue or plead in a supposed case.

    • There is a difference between mooting and pleading; between fencing and fighting.
  5. 5

    To talk or speak.obsoleteregional

    • In that mater now I will mute no moir.
  6. 6

    To say, utter, also insinuate.Northern-EnglandScotland

noun
  1. 1

    A whisper, or an insinuation, also gossip or rumors.Northern-EnglandScotlandcountable

  2. 2

    Talk.Northern-EnglandScotlandcountable

noun/ˈmʊt/
  1. 1

    The vagina.Australia

noun
  1. 1

    The stump of a tree; the roots and bottom end of a felled tree.West-Country

    • 'Ithin the woodlands, flow'ry gleäded, / By the woak tree's mossy moot
verb
  1. 1

    To take root and begin to grow.West-Country

  2. 2

    To turn up soil or dig up roots, especially an animal with a snout.West-Country

    • "Zarch tha whole worl', vrom Guenever / To Squier Mules' ta Muddever, / Moot iv'ry brack about un.
noun
  1. 1

    A mutual follower on a social media platform.Internetendearingplural-normally

    • 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.

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