mo'
Appearance
See also: Appendix: Variations of "mo"
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Compare fo' (“for; four”), ho (“whore”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]mo'
- (dialectal, African-American Vernacular) Pronunciation spelling of more, representing non-rhotic AAVE English.
- 1904, Clifton Johnson, Highways and Byways of the South, page 124:
- But the people are great han's for religion, and it's a common saying they got mo' religion an' less morals than yo'll find anywhere else in the world.
- 1916, Official Proceedings, Western Railway Club, page 143:
- A millennium, mah son, am jes' de same as a thousan' legged worm, only hits got mo' legs.
- 2005, Tim Brooks, Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry, 1890-1919, page 137:
- Brethren if you want mo' preachin', save a little dram for me.
Anagrams
[edit]Italian
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Contraction of modo.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]mo'
- Only used in a mo' di
Etymology 2
[edit]Adverb
[edit]mo'
- Alternative spelling of mo
Tektiteko
[edit]Noun
[edit]mo'
Yola
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English more, from Old English māra.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]mo'
- more
- 1927, “THE FORTH MAN'S GRACE AFTER A SCANTY DINNER”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 137, line 3:
- Gin we have no mo' maate, it maakes no mo' matter,
- [If we have no more meat, it makes no more matter,]
References
[edit]- Kathleen A. Browne (1927) The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Sixth Series, Vol.17 No.2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 137
Yucatec Maya
[edit]Noun
[edit]mo'
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- Rhymes:English/oʊ
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- Rhymes:Italian/ɔ
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- Yola terms inherited from Middle English
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