mosey

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   informal, especially US: to walk or move in a relaxed, unhurried way

   We moseyed along the riverbank after lunch.

2. 2
   verb

   informal, especially US: to go away or set off

   I should mosey home before it gets dark.

First recorded in nineteenth-century Southern and Western American speech. Its origin is uncertain; suggested connections include Spanish vamos or vamoose and British dialect mosey, but no derivation is established.

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