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Mosey

Definition: Mosey

Mosey

Verb

1. Walk leisurely.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "mosey" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1880. (references)

Note: Mosey \Mo"sey\, intransitive verb. [Perh. from Vamose.]. (Websters 1913)


Synonym: Mosey

Synonym: amble (v). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: Mosey

DomainUsage

Screenplays

From now on I'm going to employ relaxation techniques to turn off stress river and mosey gently down contentment creek. (Drop the Dead Donkey; writing credit: Andy Hamilton; Guy Jenkin)

All right, everyone, let's mosey. (Final Fantasy VII; writing credit: Kouze Ide; Kazushige Nojima)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Mosey

DomainTitle

Books

  • Ngurra (camp/home/country) : Dolly Nampijinpa Daniels and Anne Mosey : University of South Australia Art Museum, 24 February-26 March 1994 (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Mosey

"Mosey" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 62.50% of the time. "Mosey" is used about 16 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)62.5%10111,207
Noun (proper)37.5%6143,867
                    Total100.00%16N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Mosey

The following table summarizes the usage of "mosey" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
MoseyLast name30029,929
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Mosey

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

mosey

24

mosey n me

20

ann mosey sally

3

camp mosey wood

3

manufacturing mosey

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Mosey

Language Translations for "mosey"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

sorollatem (drone, hang around, linger, Potter), sillem kot (hang around, lie around, loiter, muck about). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏قام بجولة (round), ‏تفسح (picnic), ‏تنزه (hike, knock around, parade, perambulate, picnic, promenade, ramble, stretch one's legs, stroll, tramp, troll, walk), ‏تسكع (gad about, hang about, hang around, idling, linger, loaf, loiter, lounge, meander, mess around, mooch, muck about, perambulate, perambulation, potter, putter, range, roam, slop, slouch, traipse, tramp), ‏سير الهوينا (amble, stomp), ‏عبث (dalliance, fiddlestick, flightiness, flirtation, frivolity, futility, loiter, mess up, moonshine, palter, piddle, piffling, pointless, potter, shallowness, toy, trifle, twiddle). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

шляя се (dally, dawdle, fool about, fool around, gallivant, hang about, hang around, idle, loaf, lollop, meander, mess about, mess around, mooch, moon about, saunter, screw around, swan around, vagabond), мотая се (mess about, mess around, traipse), изчезвам (abscond, clear out, disappear, dissipate, evanesce, evanish, fall away, go, melt away, pass, pass away, pass off, shrink away, sweep away, tail, vanish, waste, wear out, whirl away, work off), изпарявам се (boil down, dry off, evaporate, exhale, fume, make one's scarce, make oneself scarce, ooze, scat, skedaddle, steam away, vanish into the void, vapor, vaporize, vapour, volatilize), духвам (blow, blow out, insufflate, mizzle, puff out). (various references)

   

French

  

marcher sans trop se presser, marcher sans se presser, faire une balade, faire un tour, baguenauder, aller sans trop se presser. (various references)

   

German

  

dahinschlendern (amble). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ללכת לאטו (amble). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

szedi a sátorfáját (to hop off, to hop the stick, to hop the twig, to pack up bag and baggage, to pick up one's moorings, to pull up stakes, to sting one's hook), eloldalog (to slink away, to slink off, to sneak away, to sneak off). (various references)

   

Italian

  

andarsene precipitosamente. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oseymay

   

Portuguese

  

mexer-se (bustle, stir). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

слоняться (dangle around, gallivant, hover about, loaf, lop about, lounge, mooch, muck about, putter about). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

ići (gang, get on, go, go by, redound, tread in, truck, walk, wend). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

pasearse (drive, foresight, go for a walk, parade up and down, promenade, ramble, saunter, stroke, stroll, walk, walk about, walk around, walking, wander), deambular (wander, wander about, wander around). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

pysa, dunsta (buzz off, evaporate). (various references)

   

Thai

  

รีบจากไป. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

gezinmek (bat around, get around, go for a stroll, go for a walk, hang about, hang around, perambulate, promenade, roam, rove, rove about, stray, stroll, take a stroll, take a walk, walk about, walk around, wander, wander about), dolaşmak (air oneself, bat around, be afloat, become tangled, browse around, circuit, circulate, float, flow, go about, go around, go for a jaunt, go for a stroll, go for a walk, go on a jaunt, hike, itinerate, jaunt, jauntiness, kink, knot, look round, mat, perambulate, range, roam, rove, stray, stroll, take a stroll, take a walk, travel, walk, walk about, walk around, wander), ayrılmak (apostatize, be off, be through with, break away, break up, break with, check out, come unstuck, cut loose, decamp, defect, depart, desert, deviate, disunite, divaricate, diverge, divide, divorce, divorce from, draw apart, draw away, drop out, fork, furcate, get clear of, get off, give up, graduate, hive off, lead away from, leave, move off, part, part company, part company with, part from, part with, pull away, pull out, quit, retire, revolt, revolt from, secede, segregate, separate, sever, splinter off, split, split off, split up, stray, sunder, take one's farewell of, tear oneself away, unstuck, vacate, walk off, walk out, walk out of, withdraw). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

іти геть (go away, make off, run along, shove off, take away), забиратися (pile in). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Mosey

Derivations

Words beginning with "mosey": moseyed, moseying, moseys. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Mosey" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cosey, dosey, Joysey, Marsey, mashey, maxey, mcse, meey, missey, modey, Moesia, moey, Mogey, Moiseev, mojey, moley, Molsey, Monsei, Mooey, moosai, mooseg, mooset, moosy, mopey, Mopsy, morey, Morsey, mosad, mosai, Mosby, mose, mosee, Moseh, mosely, moser, moset, moseye, Mosney, mosow, mosse, mosser, mosty, mosy, motey, moty, Moussey, movey, mowey, mowse, Moxey, moyes, moyse, moze, mozel, mozley, mozy, mozzery, mugey, omsy, Woosey. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Mosey"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "mosey" (pronounced mō"zē)
3-ō" z ēCosey, cosy, cozy, nosy, rosy.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Mosey

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-m-o-s-y"

-1 letter: oyes, some.

-2 letters: ems, mos, oes, oms, ose, som, soy, yes, yom.

-3 letters: em, es, me, mo, my, oe, om, os, oy, so, ye, yo.

 Words containing the letters "e-m-o-s-y"
 

+1 letter: cymose, moneys, moseys, mousey, myopes, myoses, smokey.

 

+2 letters: amylose, embryos, employs, eponyms, etymons, eyesome, isozyme, misyoke, modesty, monkeys, mooleys, moseyed, motleys, mycoses, myopies, myosote, oxysome, samoyed, someday, someway, zymoses.

 

+3 letters: amyloses, atemoyas, benomyls, bombyxes, comfreys, costumey, cymosely, domesday, embryons, employes, euonymus, evonymus, homeboys, homestay, isometry, isozymes, koumyses, lysosome, lysozyme, mayoress, maypoles, mesophyl, metonyms, misyoked, misyokes, modestly, moneyers, mooneyes, morosely, moseying, myelomas, myoscope, myosotes, myotomes, oxysomes, polymers, polysemy, polysome, ramosely, rimosely, rosemary, samoyeds, seldomly, shamoyed, smothery, solemnly, somberly, sombrely, somebody, someways, sycamore, sycomore, symbiote, symboled, syndrome, synonyme, zymogens.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Mosey


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 6F 73 65 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

--    ---    ...    .    -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01101111 01110011 01100101 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#111 &#115 &#101 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 006F 0073 0065 0079

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4781857191

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Usage Frequency
6. Names: Frequency
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Derivations
10. Rhymes
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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