hooshtahint.
/ˈhuːʃtɑː/ A shout of encouragement, etc., to a camel. Hence as v. Also occasionally as n., a camel.
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1903 R. Bedford True Eyes xxxvi. 201 Their string of five camels..were water-swollen, so that they looked like five great footballs set up on sticks. One by one Quinn and Lawler ‘hooshta'ed’ them to the ground.
1906 Daily Chron. 8 Jan. 6/7 So the camel was hooshtahed down and strapped.
1911 C. E. W. Bean ‘Dreadnought’ of Darling xxiv. 211 He made a noise, probably ‘Hooshta’, as he went—‘Hooshta’ seems to be the only noise an Afghan ever does make to a camel.
1936 F. Clune Roaming round Darling xxiv. 258 I remembered over in Cairo the cameliers used to shout ‘Hooshta, hooshta’ to their camels... Jack the Ripper..returned and wishtered and hooshtered to Galahad, who stopped, and gently genuflected himself while the sore torn-seated Poet dismounted.
1942 C. Barrett On Wallaby iv. 62 Many a time we've been out in the Sinai desert guarding a grazing mob of ‘hooshtas’.
1964 H. M. Barker Camels & Outback 74 All the time the standard oriental ‘hushdar’ was hissed as if it were spelt with many ‘s's’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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