LekhoriLekhoriSubject to discussion (originally at a moot); arguable, debatable, unsolved or impossible to solve.
[…] :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 a moot point whether or not we could get out of: […]
Being an exercise of thought; academic.
Having no practical consequence or relevance.
That point may make for a good discussion, but it is moot.
A moot court.
The pleading used in courts and chancery called moots.
A system of arbitration in many areas of Africa in which the primary goal is to settle a dispute and reintegrate adversaries into society rather than assess penalties.
A whisper, or an insinuation, also gossip or rumors.
To bring up as a subject for debate.
A number of other mergers of U.S. railroads are mooted, 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.
From Middle English mōt, ȝemōt, from Old English *mōt, ġemōt (“meeting”), from Proto-Germanic *mōtą, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- (“to encounter, come”). Cognate with Scots mut, mote (“meeting, as...
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Talk.
The vagina.
The stump of a tree; the roots and bottom end of a felled tree.
'Ithin the woodlands, flow'ry gleäded, / By the woak tree's mossy moot
A mutual follower on a social media platform.
Eid Mubarak to all my muslim moots out there
To discuss or debate.
a problem which hardly has been mentioned, far less mooted, in this country
To take root and begin to grow.