different between mosey vs stagger
mosey
English
Alternative forms
- mosy, mozey, mozy
Etymology
Unknown. Originally attested in Southern US dialects. Suggested origins include:
- Spanish vamos (compare vamoose)
- British dialectal mose about (“walk around stupidly”)
- an Algonquian term for "walk" (compare Ojibwe bimose (“she or he walks along”))
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /?mo?.zi/
Verb
mosey (third-person singular simple present moseys, present participle moseying, simple past and past participle moseyed)
- (chiefly US, dialectal) To set off, get going; to start a journey.
- 1910, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Kilmeny of the Orchard, chapter 1:
- 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, Kilmeny of the Orchard, chapter 1:
- (chiefly US, dialectal) To go off quickly: to hurry up.
- (chiefly US, dialectal) To amble; to walk or proceed in a leisurely manner.
- 1919, William MacLeod Raine, A Man Four-Square, chapter 6:
- 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, A Man Four-Square, chapter 6:
Translations
Usage notes
- Associated especially with the dialect of the Old West.
Anagrams
- Moyes, Moyse
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stagger
English
Etymology
From Middle English stageren, stakeren, from Old Norse stakra (“to push, stagger”). Cognate with dialectal Danish stagre.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?stæ??/?
- (US) IPA(key): /?stæ??/
- Rhymes: -æ??(r)
Noun
stagger (plural staggers)
- An unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion
- 7 October 2012, Paolo Bandini in The Guardian, Denver Broncos 21 New England Patriots 31 - as it happened
- Put down the rosary beads folks, I believe hell may just have frozen over. Peyton Manning drops back, sees nothing open and runs for a first down. If you can call that running. More like the stagger of a wounded rhino. Did the job, though
- 1861, Ellen Wood, East Lynne Chapter 39
- Afy slowly gathered in the sense of the words. She gasped twice, as if her breath had gone, and then, with a stagger and a shiver, fell heavily to the ground.
- 1843, Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol Stave 2
- And when old Fezziwig and Mrs. Fezziwig had gone all through the dance; advance and retire; both hands to your partner, bow and courtesy, corkscrew, thread the needle, and back again to your place; Fezziwig "cut"—cut so deftly that he appeared to wink with his legs, and came upon his feet again without a stagger.
- 7 October 2012, Paolo Bandini in The Guardian, Denver Broncos 21 New England Patriots 31 - as it happened
- (veterinary medicine) A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling
- Bewilderment; perplexity.
- The spacing out of various actions over time.
- 19 April 2016, Rachel Roddy in The Guardian, Rachel Roddy’s Roman spring vegetable stew recipe
- I don’t include cured pork, although it is very nice, and rather than putting everything in the pan at once I prefer a stagger of ingredients, which ensures each one gets the right amount of time.
- 19 April 2016, Rachel Roddy in The Guardian, Rachel Roddy’s Roman spring vegetable stew recipe
- (motor racing) The difference in circumference between the left and right tires on a racing vehicle. It is used on oval tracks to make the car turn better in the corners.
- (aviation) The horizontal positioning of a biplane, triplane, or multiplane's wings in relation to one another.
Translations
Verb
stagger (third-person singular simple present staggers, present participle staggering, simple past and past participle staggered)
- Sway unsteadily, reel, or totter.
- (intransitive) In standing or walking, to sway from one side to the other as if about to fall; to stand or walk unsteadily; to reel or totter.
- She began to stagger across the room.
- Deep was the wound; he staggered with the blow.
- (transitive) To cause to reel or totter.
- The powerful blow of his opponent's fist staggered the boxer.
- (intransitive) To cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail.
- 1708, Joseph Addison, The Present State of the War, and the Necessity of an Augmentation
- The enemy staggers.
- 1708, Joseph Addison, The Present State of the War, and the Necessity of an Augmentation
- (intransitive) In standing or walking, to sway from one side to the other as if about to fall; to stand or walk unsteadily; to reel or totter.
- Doubt, waver, be shocked.
- (intransitive) To begin to doubt and waver in purposes; to become less confident or determined; to hesitate.
- He [Abraham] staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief.
- (transitive) To cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to make less steady or confident; to shock.
- He will stagger the committee when he presents his report.
- 1640, James Howell, England's Teares for the present Warres
- whosoever will be curious to read the future story of this intricate war , if it be possible to compile a story of it , he will find himself much staggered.
- 1796, Edmund Burke, a letter to a noble lord
- Grants to the house of Russell were so enormous, as not only to outrage economy, but even to stagger credibility.
- (intransitive) To begin to doubt and waver in purposes; to become less confident or determined; to hesitate.
- (transitive) Have multiple groups doing the same thing in a uniform fashion, but starting at different, evenly-spaced, times or places (attested from 1856).
- To arrange (a series of parts) on each side of a median line alternately, as the spokes of a wheel or the rivets of a boiler seam.
- To arrange similar objects such that each is ahead or above and to one side of the next.
- We will stagger the starting positions for the race on the oval track.
- To schedule in intervals.
- We will stagger the run so the faster runners can go first, then the joggers.
Translations
See also
- bestagger
- staggeringly
- staggers
References
Anagrams
- gagster, gargets, taggers
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