2015 December 9, Jankenpopp, “Top 15 kawaii and moe anime girls”, inMy Anime List[2]:
Someone who is pretty or beautiful isn'tmoe by definition.Moe characters don't always have to be younger girls, but it certainly helps! In fact,moe characters don't even have to be female! As long as they make you feel like you want to hug and protect them, that's enough!
2023 September 5, Trent Murray, “10 Best Anime Like Bocchi The Rock”, inDual Shockers[3], Carole and Tuesday:
Despite itsmoe roots and preference for hijinks,Bocchi The Rock is a loving celebration of rock music and the joys of being in a band.
The crafty courtiers with their guileful looks, Must needs put some experience in my maw: Yet cannot these with many mast'riesmoe Make me shoot straight at any gainful prick[…]
Borg, Alexander (2004)A Comparative Glossary of Cypriot Maronite Arabic (Arabic–English) (Handbook of Oriental Studies;I.70), Leiden and Boston: Brill,page436
This word is usually used predicatively rather than attributively. If an attributive sense is needed, most people usevermoeid. The formsmoeie andmoeier are often proscribed. The formmoede is mostly formal.
^Pukui, Mary Kawena, Elbert, Samuel H. (1986) “moe”, inHawaiian Dictionary, revised & enlarged edition, Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai'i Press,→ISBN, page249
^Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “mohe”, inPOLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online
