[…]:indeed we were obligd to hawl off rather in a hurry for the wind freshning a little we found ourselves in a bay which it was amoot point whether or not we could get out of:[…]
[T]he uncertain, unsettled condition of this science of Cetology is in the very vestibule attested by the fact, that in some quarters it still remains amoot point whether a whale be a fish.
1903, Walter Crane, Lewis F. Day,Moot Points: Friendly Disputes on Art and Industry Between Walter Crane and Lewis F. Day:
2002,Colin Jones,The Great Nation, Penguin, published2003, page477:
The extent to which these Parisian radicals ‘represented’ the French people as a whole was verymoot.
The question [whether certain poetry was present in the original Hebrew Psalms] in our own time ismoot, since various considerations have made it certain that, of all the hazards presented by biblical translation, a dangerous excess of beauty is not one of them.
The pleading used in courts and chancery calledmoots.
A system ofarbitration in many areas ofAfrica in which the primary goal is to settle adispute and reintegrateadversaries into society rather than assess penalties.
(scouting) A gathering ofRovers, usually in the form of acamp lasting 2 weeks.
A number of other mergers of U.S. railroads aremooted, but the I.C.C. [Interstate Commerce Commission] has made it clear that its assent to the N.& W.-Virginian proposal, which was unopposed by competitors or stockholders, should not be taken as an indication that others will swiftly pass its scrutiny.
2019 December 17, Howard Davies, “Will the UK really turn into 'Singapore-on-Thames' after Brexit?”, inThe Guardian[1],→ISSN:
The general idea was firstmooted a couple of years ago by Philip Hammond, then Britain’s chancellor of the exchequer, as a means of encouraging the EU to strike a friendly Brexit deal with the UK.
In the fifth sense, usually found in the archaic phraseno boot to moot, as in:it's no boot to moot with her (it is no use to talk/reason/plead with her).
In rural northern dialects of the UK, usually used together with the verbsmell andspell, wheremoot is used instead oftalk andsay;mell used instead ofspeak andconverse; andspell instead oftell andrelate. The verbmoot in the senseto talk, say, utter etc., is part of an informal in-group speak or register wherein speakers (mostly of northern dialects) use this and the above-mentioned words when talking with one another and when talking with outsiders or strangers they, usually, only use the words likesay,talk,speak etc. For example, if a mother is talking with her child she is much more likely to use words likemoot,mell andspell, however if she is speaking with a stranger from the South she is extremely unlikely to use such words. Also, such words are usually considered taboo in formal contexts.
2020, @healer_katara, "Café au Twitter",ZaofuToday, Issue 1,page 10:
Eid Mubarak to all my muslimmoots out there
2021, @DIORJAEYUN, "NCity Small Business",EnVi, Winter 2021,page 222:
I just simply post them in my main Twitter account, then hoping that mymoots will like and retweet them.
2022, anonymous, quoted in Fayika Farhat Novaet al., "Cultivating the Community: Inferring Influence Within Eating Disorder Networks on Twitter",Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, January 2022 (article link):
RT: hi..jst joined #edtwt! let’s bemoots and rt each other
