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)

(slang, computer hardware) A motherboard.

Anagrams

Boom, boom, moob

Aiwoo

Adjective

mobo

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.

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