All 3 Uses of
moot
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- —The moot point is did he forget it, J. J. O'Molloy said quietly, turning a horseshoe paperweight.†
Chpt 7 *
- Also, without being actually positive, it struck him a great field was to be opened up in the line of opening up new routes to keep pace with the times apropos of the Fishguard-Rosslare route which, it was mooted, was once more on the tapis in the circumlocution departments with the usual quantity of red tape and dillydallying of effete fogeydom and dunderheads generally.†
Chpt 16
- What he wanted to ascertain was why that ship ran bang against the only rock in Galway bay when the Galway harbour scheme was mooted by a Mr Worthington or some name like that, eh?†
Chpt 16
Definition:
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(moot as in: moot question) describing an issue or discussion as irrelevant due to another issue or decision
or:
arguable with no clear-cut answer (especially with regard to case law)