Word: mooie
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...speak Dutch, but we think the name means cute," says Kuala Lumpur native Jenny Chong, 32, who, along with friends (and former McCann Erickson advertising-agency colleagues) Jessy Yap and Samantha Wong, both 26, runs Mooie, the funkiest fashion destination in the Malaysian capital. On display is a wide range of Asian fashion labels, along with bandbox-striped changing rooms and blackboard walls on which the trio chalk up monthly messages informed by their design backgrounds. "We like to be creative in everything we do," Chong says...
...Milwaukee, Fobes Ormsby Henderveld de Kaul-a cow called Mooie for short-received an allotment of one pound of sugar a day under the "Illness of Consumer" clause, because her owner, Farmer Harry Goebel, had a veterinary's certificate prescribing one pound of brown sugar daily, the only cure for Mooie's temporary insanity...
...Dutch would be: "Kijk uit!" At Dutch railroad crossings we see the signs "Uitkujken!" "Kijk" is the Dutch for look. "Kijkers" is also the Dutch pet name for eyes, so that, if we tell a pretty girl that she has beautiful eyes, the Dutch would call them: "Mooie kijkers." To make the word seem still more useful, the Dutch also have kijkcr mean opera-glass or telescope and, if the Dutch had speakeasies (which they haven't and thank goodness have no need of) the peephole in the entrance door would be called, like Mr. Rockefeller's retreat...
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