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Nature & Environment

もくもく

moku-moku

Billowing clouds or smoke

The visual impression of thick clouds or smoke rising and expanding in big, puffy masses. Evokes large, voluminous shapes forming in the sky.

💡Watching summer clouds — 'The cumulonimbus clouds were rising moku-moku in the sky.'

Example

夏の空に入道雲がもくもくと立ち上がっている。

Cumulonimbus clouds are rising moku-moku in the summer sky.

Quiz yourself

Thick smoke rose ___ from the campfire into the evening sky.

焚き火から煙が○○と夕空に立ち上っていた。

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