moot

adj

1. (rare)Subject 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: […]”

   “[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 a moot point whether a whale be a fish.”

   “The extent to which these Parisian radicals ‘represented’ the French people as a whole was very moot.”

2. (Canada, US)Being an exercise of thought; academic.
3. (Canada, US, uncommon)Having no practical consequence or relevance.

   “That point may make for a good discussion, but it is moot.”

   “The question [whether certain poetry was present in the original Hebrew Psalms] in our own time is moot, 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.”

noun

1. A moot court.

   “The pleading used in courts and chancery called moots.”

2. 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.
3. A gathering of Rovers, usually in the form of a camp lasting two weeks.
4. A social gathering of pagans, normally held in a public house.
5. (historical)An assembly (usually for decision-making in a locality).
6. A ring for gauging wooden pins.
7. (Northern-England, Scotland, countable, uncountable)A whisper, or an insinuation, also gossip or rumors.
8. (Northern-England, Scotland, countable, uncountable)Talk.
9. (Australia)The vagina.
10. (West-Country)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”

11. (Internet, endearing)A mutual follower on a social media platform.

    “Eid Mubarak to all my muslim moots out there”

    “I just simply post them in my main Twitter account, then hoping that my moots will like and retweet them.”

    “RT: hi..jst joined #edtwt! let’s be moots and rt each other”

verb

1. 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.”

   “The general idea was first mooted 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.”

2. To discuss or debate.

   “a problem which hardly has been mentioned, far less mooted, in this country”

   “First a case is appointed to be mooted by certain young men, containing some doubtful controversy.”

   “An elevated cycleway connecting Los Angeles and Pasadena was mooted as early as 1896 …”

3. (US)To make or declare irrelevant.
4. To argue or plead in a supposed case.

   “There is a difference between mooting and pleading; between fencing and fighting.”

5. (obsolete, regional)To talk or speak.

   “In that mater now I will mute no moir.”

6. (Northern-England, Scotland)To say, utter, also insinuate.
7. (West-Country)To take root and begin to grow.
8. (West-Country)To turn up soil or dig up roots, especially an animal with a snout.

   “"Zarch tha whole worl', vrom Guenever / To Squier Mules' ta Muddever, / Moot iv'ry brack about un.”