mosey

present singular third person moseys · participle present moseying · participle past moseyed · past moseyed · alternative mosy · alternative mozey · alternative mozy

1. USdialectalintransitiveTo set off, get going; to start a journey.

   Haven't got time. I must mosey up to the North End to see a man who has got a lovely throat. Nobody can find out what is the matter. He has puzzled all the doctors.

   1910, Lucy Maud Montgomery, “chapter 1”, in Kilmeny of the Orchard

2. USdialectalintransitiveTo go off quickly: to hurry up.
3. USdialectalintransitiveTo amble; to walk or proceed in a leisurely manner.

   We'll mosey along toward the river. Kinder take it easy an' drift the herd down slow so as to let the cattle put on flesh.

   1919, William MacLeod Raine, “chapter 6”, in A Man Four-Square

   1 more example

   “Was he runnin‘?” “No, he’s just moseyin‘ along, so slow you can’t hardly tell it. He’s comin’ this way.”

   1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC

comparative more mosey · superlative most mosey · alternative mosy · alternative mawsy · alternative moosy · alternative moozy

1. UKregionalHairy, furry.
2. NewfoundlandClose, muggy; misty, hazy.

plural moseys · alternative mosy · alternative mawsy · alternative moosy · alternative moozy

1. IrelandA fool, an idiot.First known use 19th c.

   Daedalus, come down, like a good mosey. Breakfast is ready.

   1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 1: Telemachus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part I [Telemachia], page 10

plural Moseys

1. A surname.