moe

alternative moé

1. slanguncountablelifestyleStrong interest in, and especially fetishistic attraction towards, fictional characters in anime, manga, video games, and/or similar media.

   Despite its moe roots and preference for hijinks, Bocchi The Rock is a loving celebration of rock music and the joys of being in a band.

   2023 September 5, Trent Murray, “10 Best Anime Like Bocchi The Rock”, in Dual Shockers, Carole and Tuesday

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   Someone who is pretty or beautiful isn't moe 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!

   2015 December 9, Jankenpopp, “Top 15 kawaii and moe anime girls”, in My Anime List

comparative more moe · comparative moe-er · superlative most moe · superlative moe-est · alternative moé

1. slanglifestyleCute, adorable. (of fictional characters in anime, manga, video games, and/or similar media)

1. obsoleteObsolete form of mo.
2. obsoleteObsolete form of more.

   Sing no more ditties, sing no moe.

   1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]

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   The crafty courtiers with their guileful looks, Must needs put some experience in my maw: Yet cannot these with many mast'ries moe Make me shoot straight at any gainful prick […]

   c. 1572, George Gascoigne, Woodmanship

1. obsoleteObsolete form of mow (“wry face, grimace”).
2. obsoleteObsolete form of moa.

1. obsoleteObsolete form of moo.
2. obsoleteObsolete form of mow (“to make faces”).

plural moes

1. slangWashington DC; African-American Vernacular; Washington DC; African-American VernacularA close friend; a nigga, homie or bro.

1. A surname, possibly formed by abbreviation of Moses or another name beginning with "Mo-".
2. A male given name; Diminutive of Moses and Maurice.

1. A female given name from Japanese.

1. A town in the Shire of Baw Baw and the City of Latrobe, south eastern Victoria, Australia.

alternative MOE

1. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of Ministry of Education.
2. abbreviationinitialismmachine learningInitialism of mixture of experts.

   GLaM [51] is an autoregressive mixture-of-experts (MoE) model with up to 1200B parameters.

   2023, Gerhard Paaß, Sven Giesselbach, Foundation Models for Natural Language Processing: Pre-trained Language Models Integrating Media, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 130

3. abbreviationinitialismmathematicsInitialism of margin of error.

1. Alternative letter-case form of MoE.