Definitions for moue

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Spelling: [moo]
IPA: /mu/

Moue is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 23 anagrams from letters in moue (emou).

Definitions for moue

noun

  1. a pouting grimace.

Origin of moue

French; Old French moe; see mow3

Examples for moue

Valérie made a moue mutine, expressive of entire repudiation of such employment.

Three seconds later the dusty-faced little girl and her moue were sped utterly from William's mind.

English-women don't make the moue, so, though I like sticking to my mother tongue, I confess my inability to translate the word.

She made a moue that I ought to have found fascinating, nodding emphatically.

Kenelm returned the moue with a mournful smile and an involuntary shrug.

"Yet you can leave me to-day," pouted Favette, with a sigh and a moue mutine, and gathering tears in her large gazelle eyes.

But there is more behind to moue you further to affect this Excellent Grace.

Mop may be only a corruption of mock, and mow of mouth—we still say make mouths—or the French moue, which has the same sense.

So are many that rake dunghills.If you haue any suit, moue it in Court.

Neither the whisper nor the moue escaped Keane, as he talked with the governor on model drainage.

Word Value for moue
Scrable

6

Words with friends

8

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