Moseyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈmoʊ.zi/

語源 1

Unknown. Originally attested in Southern US dialects. Suggested origins include:

• Spanish vamos (compare vamoose)
• British dialectal mosey about (“walk around at leisurely pace”)
• an Algonquian term for "walk" (compare Ojibwe bimose (“she or he walks along”))
• proper name Mosey, pet form of Moses, in reference to the biblical Exodus which he led

別の表記

• mosy, mozey, mozy

動詞

mosey (third-person singular simple present moseys, present participle moseying, simple past and past participle moseyed)

1. (chiefly US, dialectal, intransitive) To set off, get going; to start a journey.
   • 1910, Lucy Maud Montgomery, “chapter 1”, in Kilmeny of the Orchard:

     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.

2. (chiefly US, dialectal, intransitive) To go off quickly: to hurry up.
3. (chiefly US, dialectal, intransitive) To amble; to walk or proceed in a leisurely manner.
   • 1919, William MacLeod Raine, “chapter 6”, in A Man Four-Square:

     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.

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

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

使用する際の注意点

• Associated especially with the dialect of the Old West.

語源 2

From moss +‎ -y (apparently reflecting 中期英語 open vowel lengthening).

別の表記

• mosy, mawsy, moosy, moozy

形容詞

mosey (comparative more mosey, superlative most mosey)

1. (UK regional) Hairy, furry.
2. (chiefly Newfoundland) Close, muggy; misty, hazy.

名詞

mosey (plural moseys)

1. (chiefly Ireland) A fool, an idiot. [from 19th c.]
   • 1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 1: Telemachus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part I [Telemachia], page 10:

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

アナグラム

• Moyes, Moyse