mootah, mooter U.S. slang.
(ˈmuːtə)
Also moota, mootie, mota, muta, and other varr.
[Origin unknown.]
Marijuana.
| 1933 C. de Lenoir Hundredth Man xiii. 220 This drug..looked like chopped hay, or dried clover... In short, a ‘muggles’, ‘weed’, or ‘mootie’, cannabis indica. 1938 Detective Fiction Weekly 8 Jan. 47/2 He found plenty of marijuana... As always, it came in cigarettes, called ‘reefers’, ‘muggles’, ‘moocahs’, ‘mus’, ‘grifos’, ‘mootas’, or sometimes, playfully, ‘Mary Warners’. 1943 Time 19 July 54/2 Marijuana may be called muggles, mooter, Mary Warner, Mary Jane, Indian hay, loco weed, love weed, bambalacha, mohasky, mu, moocah, grass, tea or blue sage. 1946 Mezzrow & Wolfe Really Blues (1957) 52 All the time he was in the asylum he kept waiting for a big train to pull in with a carload of muta just for him. 1950 H. E. Goldin Dict. Amer. Underworld Lingo 285/1 Marijuana{ddd}mota; muggles; stink-weed. 1956 ‘E. McBain’ Cop Hater (1958) x. 92 One of the guys was on mootah. So he got a little high. 1971 E. E. Landy Underground Dict. 128 Marijuana,..moocah, mota, mutha. |