roo

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɹuː/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɹu/
• Rhymes: -uː
• Homophones: rue, roux

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From Middle English roo, ro, from Old English rō, rōw (“quietness, quiet, rest”), from Proto-Germanic *rōō (“quiet, rest”), from Proto-Indo-European *ere(w)-, *rē(w)- (“quiet”). Cognate with Scots ro, ruve (“peace, repose”), German Ruhe (“rest, peace, tranquility”), Danish, Norwegian and Swedish ro (“rest, peace, tranquility”), Icelandic ró (“tranquility, quietness”).

roo (uncountable)

1. (UK dialectal or obsolete) Peace; quietness.
2. (UK dialectal) Rest; stillness.

• roolie
• unruly

Aphetic form of kangaroo.

• 'roo

roo (plural roos)

1. (Australia, slang) Clipping of kangaroo.

• a roo loose in the top paddock
• roo bar

• Oro, oro-

roo

1. (reintegrationist norm) first-person singular present indicative of roer

roo

1. excrement, faeces, shit

• IPA^(key): /ɺoʔo/

roo m (masc. plural roobii, fem. rooko, fem. plural roobee) (Note: the form after a determiner is roo)

1. a horn, barb (mpl vowel may rise to ruubii. fem. = a short/stout horn)

• IPA^(key): /rʲuː/

roo (emphatic roosyn)

1. third-person plural of rish

   to them

   • Cha row eh ny s'lheah er loayrt roo. No sooner had he spoken to them.
   • Ta mee çheughey roo. I side with them.

roo

1. Alternative form of ro (“roe deer”)

roo

1. Alternative form of ro (“serenity”)

• Rhymes: -ou
• Hyphenation: ro‧o

roo

1. first-person singular present indicative of roer

roo

1. first-person singular present indicative of roer

   Synonyms: roigo, royo

From *doo, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *dahun, compare Malay daun.

roo

1. leaf