mobo

See also: MOBO, and móbō

English

Etymology

Truncation of the first and last syllables.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmoʊ.boʊ/

Noun

mobo (plural mobos)

1. (slang, computer hardware) A motherboard.

Anagrams

• Boom, boom, moob

Äiwoo

Adjective

mobo

1. short (in height or length)

References

• Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007) “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, number 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.