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mo'

See also: Appendix: Variations of "mo"

English

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Etymology

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Compare fo' (“for; four”), ho (“whore”).

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mo'

  1. (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.

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Italian

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Etymology 1

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Contraction of modo.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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mo'

  1. Only used in a mo' di

Etymology 2

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Adverb

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mo'

  1. Alternative spelling of mo

Tektiteko

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Noun

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mo'

  1. crow

Yola

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Middle English more, from Old English māra.

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Adjective

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mo'

  1. 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,]

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  • 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

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Noun

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mo'

  1. Macaw.
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