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Definition: Mosey |
MoseyVerb1. 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: MoseySynonym: amble (v). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
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) | |
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| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 62.5% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Noun (proper) | 37.5% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 16 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Mosey | Last name | 300 | 29,929 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency 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. | |
| 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 mexer-se (bustle, stir). (various references) слоняться (dangle around, gallivant, hover about, loaf, lop about, lounge, mooch, muck about, putter about). (various references) ići (gang, get on, go, go by, redound, tread in, truck, walk, wend). (various references) 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) pysa, dunsta (buzz off, evaporate). (various references) รีบจากไป. (various references) 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) іти геть (go away, make off, run along, shove off, take away), забиратися (pile in). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "mosey": moseyed, moseying, moseys. (additional references) | |
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"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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "mosey" (pronounced mō"zē) |
| 3 | -ō" z ē | Cosey, cosy, cozy, nosy, rosy. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 6F 73 65 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- --- ... . -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01101111 01110011 01100101 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M o s e y |
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)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4781857191 |
| 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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