moco

From Portuguese mocó.

moco (plural mocos)

1. (archaic) Rock cavy (Kerodon rupestris).

From Spanish moco.

1. (slang) A booger.
   • 1991 November 5, Tatsuya Ishida, “Sinfest (comic)”, in Daily Bruin‎, University of California, Los Angeles, page 8:

     There's a huge and disturbing moco in your nose, sir.

• loco moco

• “moco”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• COMO, Como, MOOC, coom

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): (Central)
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia)

moco

1. first-person singular present indicative of mocar (“to blow (the nose); to mock”)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): (Central)
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia)

moco

1. first-person singular present indicative of mocar (“to gut (a fish or carcass)”)

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moco m (plural mocos)

1. moco

• “moco”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

Inherited from Latin mŭccus, variant of mūcus, from Proto-Indo-European *mew-k- (“slimy, slippery”).

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moco m (plural mocos)

1. mucus; bogey, bogie, booger
2. snood (flap of red skin on the beak of a male turkey)

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “moco”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “moco”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “moco”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔ.ko/
• Rhymes: -ɔko
• Hyphenation: mò‧co

Of Mediterranean origin.

moco m (plural mochi)

1. Synonym of mochi
2. (figurative, archaic) trifle, nothing

Of Tupian origin.

moco m (plural mochi)

1. rock cavy (Kerodon rupestris)

• moco¹ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• moco² in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• Como, comò

moco

1. Nonstandard spelling of maca.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmoko/
• Rhymes: -oko
• Syllabification: mo‧co

Inherited from Latin mŭccus, variant of mūcus, from Proto-Indo-European *mew-k- (“slimy, slippery”).

moco m (plural mocos)

1. mucus; bogey, bogie, booger
2. slime

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

moco

1. first-person singular present indicative of mocar

• “moco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16