mustangn.

Brit.

/ˈmʌstaŋ/, U.S.

/ˈməˌstæŋ/

Forms: 1800s mestang, 1800s moustang, 1800s– mustang.

Origin: Probably a borrowing from Spanish. Etymons: Spanish mestengo, mostrenco.

Etymology: Probably a confusion of two synonymous Spanish words: mestengo (late 15th cent.; now mesteño) and mostrenco (1273).Minsheu Spanish Dict. (1599) gives ‘Mestengo or Mostrenco , a strayer’. The Novísimo Diccionario (1888) has both words as adjectives meaning ‘wild, having no master: said of horses and cattle’. Mesteño appears to be a derivative (for the suffix compare Madrileño n.) of Mesta Mesta n., one of the functions of such associations being the appropriation of the wild cattle that have attached themselves to the herds ( Novís. Dicc.). The etymology of mostrenco is uncertain; compare Portuguese mostrengo (15th cent.). The English word was later borrowed into Spanish as mustango (1936).

a. The small, hardy, wild or semi-wild horse of the North American plains, esp. of Mexico and California, which is descended from stock introduced into the New World by the Spanish. Cf. bronco n., cayuse n.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > [noun] > equus ferus (wild horse) > mustang

mustang1808

mustang1877

1808 Z. M. Pike Acct. Exped. Sources Mississippi iii. 273 Passed several herds of mustangs or wild horses.

1834 A. Pike Prose Sketches & Poems 74 Lewis & Irwin obtained young and unbroken wild horses, (or, as the hunters call them, mestangs).

1837 W. Irving Adventures Capt. Bonneville II. xix. 28 She was mounted on a mestang or half wild horse.

1889 B. Harte Cressy ii. 44 Hank and Jim ain't been off their mustangs since sun up.

1929 J. F. Dobie Vaquero of Brush Country 240 The professional mustangers were the only men who caught mustangs in considerable numbers.

1961 R. S. Summerhays Horses & Ponies 162 The true Mustang has been largely succeeded by the modern range horse.

1985 Cincinnati Enquirer 18 Oct. c6/4 Some people say you can't tame a first-generation mustang, but that's not true.

†b. Australian. A wild or unbroken horse. Obsolete.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > [noun] > equus ferus (wild horse) > mustang

mustang1808

mustang1877

1877 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer xxiii, in Austral. Town & Country Jrnl. (Sydney) 24 Feb. 302/3 Their time was spent in running in these swift and half-wild mustangs.

1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 318 His stud of Australian Arabs..would be sold for the price of bush mustangs.

2. In full mustang grape. The small, reddish, bitter-tasting grape of a wild vine, Vitis mustangensis, native to Texas and neighbouring U.S. states; (also) the vine itself.

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Sylvaner1928

Syrah1928

Tokay wine1959

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1846 J. Gregg Diary 27 Sept. (1941) I. v. 239 There is a large species, called by the Americans, the Mustang grape which very much resembles the Muscadine of the western country, except in growing in large bunches or racemes.

1858 H. W. Longfellow Catawba Wine in Courtship Miles Standish 187 The red Mustang, Whose clusters hang O'er the waves of the Colorado.

1862 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1861: Agric. 482 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (37th Congr., 2nd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 39) V The mustang grape abounds in rich soils throughout a large portion of Texas.

1872 Amer. Naturalist 6 539 The most remarkable of these is the Mustang-grape of Texas, Vitis candicans Englem. (V. mustangensis Buckley), with rather large, rounded..leaves;..bearing berries, which in its native country are now beginning to be made into wine.

1903 A. Adams Log of Cowboy 6 Along the river grew endless quantities of Mustang grapes.

1961 Ecol. Monogr. 31 325/1 A pair [of black-capped vireos] in Texas stripped bark from a mustang grape about ten feet from their nest site.

1983 C. Middleton 111 Poems 160 Shrub vines, bitter grapes, mustang.

3. U.S. Military slang. A commissioned officer who has been promoted from the ranks. In early use also: a volunteer officer as distinguished from a regular army officer.

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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > officer or soldier of rank > [noun] > officer promoted from ranks

mustang1847

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1847 G. B. McClellan Mexican War Diary 2 Jan. (1917) 23 ‘Mind, Mr. Smith,’ said the old Mustang [sc. General Patterson] the night before, ‘mind and appear as early as possible, so that you may not delay us’—all this with that air of dignity and importance so peculiarly characteristic of Mustangs.

1847 G. B. McClellan Mexican War Diary 4 Jan. (1917) 43 I have repeatedly seen a Second Lieutenant of the regular army exercise more authority over the Volunteers..than a Mustang General.

1931 Leatherneck Feb. 13 We have three..mustangs, two of whom are..completing their probationary periods.

1950 Time 11 Dec. 22 A mustang who had worked his way up from the ranks in 13 years of service.

1971 N.Y. Times Mag. 5 Sept. 11 The most decorated enlisted man in the Korean War—the mustang everybody thought was the perfect combat commander.

1991 Soldier of Fortune Dec. 52/3 He is a ‘mustang’ officer, having worked his way up through the ranks.

Compounds

Appositive (in sense 1), as mustang horse, mustang mare, mustang pony, etc.

ΚΠ

1821 S. Austin Jrnl. 5 Sept. in Texas State Hist. Assoc. Q. (1904) 7 300 Mustang horses very plenty saw at least..150.

1884 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 14/2 The Mexican mule, bred by a male ass of a mustang mare, is also a very hardy, strong, and useful animal.

1890 A. C. Gunter Miss Nobody v Sure-footed as these mustang ponies generally are.

1941 Sun (Baltimore) 30 July 7/6 A Spanish vessel loaded with Mustang horses was shipwrecked years ago.

2000 Atlanta Jrnl. & Constit. (Nexis) 4 Oct. jj5 Calvin Cooper's..admiration of his mustang mare is what the Bureau of Land Management seeks when finding people to adopt horses.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mustang
释义	mustangn. Brit. /ˈmʌstaŋ/, U.S. /ˈməˌstæŋ/ Forms: 1800s mestang, 1800s moustang, 1800s– mustang. Origin: Probably a borrowing from Spanish. Etymons: Spanish mestengo, mostrenco. Etymology: Probably a confusion of two synonymous Spanish words: mestengo (late 15th cent.; now mesteño) and mostrenco (1273).Minsheu Spanish Dict. (1599) gives ‘Mestengo or Mostrenco , a strayer’. The Novísimo Diccionario (1888) has both words as adjectives meaning ‘wild, having no master: said of horses and cattle’. Mesteño appears to be a derivative (for the suffix compare Madrileño n.) of Mesta Mesta n., one of the functions of such associations being the appropriation of the wild cattle that have attached themselves to the herds ( Novís. Dicc.). The etymology of mostrenco is uncertain; compare Portuguese mostrengo (15th cent.). The English word was later borrowed into Spanish as mustango (1936). 1. a. The small, hardy, wild or semi-wild horse of the North American plains, esp. of Mexico and California, which is descended from stock introduced into the New World by the Spanish. Cf. bronco n., cayuse n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > [noun] > equus ferus (wild horse) > mustang mustang1808 mustang1877 1808 Z. M. Pike Acct. Exped. Sources Mississippi iii. 273 Passed several herds of mustangs or wild horses. 1834 A. Pike Prose Sketches & Poems 74 Lewis & Irwin obtained young and unbroken wild horses, (or, as the hunters call them, mestangs). 1837 W. Irving Adventures Capt. Bonneville II. xix. 28 She was mounted on a mestang or half wild horse. 1889 B. Harte Cressy ii. 44 Hank and Jim ain't been off their mustangs since sun up. 1929 J. F. Dobie Vaquero of Brush Country 240 The professional mustangers were the only men who caught mustangs in considerable numbers. 1961 R. S. Summerhays Horses & Ponies 162 The true Mustang has been largely succeeded by the modern range horse. 1985 Cincinnati Enquirer 18 Oct. c6/4 Some people say you can't tame a first-generation mustang, but that's not true. †b. Australian. A wild or unbroken horse. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > [noun] > equus ferus (wild horse) > mustang mustang1808 mustang1877 1877 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer xxiii, in Austral. Town & Country Jrnl. (Sydney) 24 Feb. 302/3 Their time was spent in running in these swift and half-wild mustangs. 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 318 His stud of Australian Arabs..would be sold for the price of bush mustangs. 2. In full mustang grape. The small, reddish, bitter-tasting grape of a wild vine, Vitis mustangensis, native to Texas and neighbouring U.S. states; (also) the vine itself. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > tree or plant producing edible berries > grape-vine > types of wild vinea1382 malmsey1511 malvoisie1517 raisin1573 parsley vine1648 winter grape1670 morillon1691 summer grape1709 Pineau1763 tresseau1763 frost grape1771 muscadinec1785 sweet-water1786 chicken grape1807 scuppernong1811 Marsanne1824 Merlot1825 Cabernet1833 Isabella1835 mustang1846 Traminer1851 labrusca1854 Pinot1854 Catawba1857 Isabel1858 Trebbiano1860 aglianico1862 Canaiolo1862 verdelho1883 vinifera1888 Durif1897 Chardonnay1911 Chenin Blanc1913 Sylvaner1928 Syrah1928 Tokay wine1959 Mourvedre1967 1846 J. Gregg Diary 27 Sept. (1941) I. v. 239 There is a large species, called by the Americans, the Mustang grape which very much resembles the Muscadine of the western country, except in growing in large bunches or racemes. 1858 H. W. Longfellow Catawba Wine in Courtship Miles Standish 187 The red Mustang, Whose clusters hang O'er the waves of the Colorado. 1862 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1861: Agric. 482 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (37th Congr., 2nd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 39) V The mustang grape abounds in rich soils throughout a large portion of Texas. 1872 Amer. Naturalist 6 539 The most remarkable of these is the Mustang-grape of Texas, Vitis candicans Englem. (V. mustangensis Buckley), with rather large, rounded..leaves;..bearing berries, which in its native country are now beginning to be made into wine. 1903 A. Adams Log of Cowboy 6 Along the river grew endless quantities of Mustang grapes. 1961 Ecol. Monogr. 31 325/1 A pair [of black-capped vireos] in Texas stripped bark from a mustang grape about ten feet from their nest site. 1983 C. Middleton 111 Poems 160 Shrub vines, bitter grapes, mustang. 3. U.S. Military slang. A commissioned officer who has been promoted from the ranks. In early use also: a volunteer officer as distinguished from a regular army officer. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > officer or soldier of rank > [noun] > officer promoted from ranks mustang1847 ranker1877 1847 G. B. McClellan Mexican War Diary 2 Jan. (1917) 23 ‘Mind, Mr. Smith,’ said the old Mustang [sc. General Patterson] the night before, ‘mind and appear as early as possible, so that you may not delay us’—all this with that air of dignity and importance so peculiarly characteristic of Mustangs. 1847 G. B. McClellan Mexican War Diary 4 Jan. (1917) 43 I have repeatedly seen a Second Lieutenant of the regular army exercise more authority over the Volunteers..than a Mustang General. 1931 Leatherneck Feb. 13 We have three..mustangs, two of whom are..completing their probationary periods. 1950 Time 11 Dec. 22 A mustang who had worked his way up from the ranks in 13 years of service. 1971 N.Y. Times Mag. 5 Sept. 11 The most decorated enlisted man in the Korean War—the mustang everybody thought was the perfect combat commander. 1991 Soldier of Fortune Dec. 52/3 He is a ‘mustang’ officer, having worked his way up through the ranks. Compounds Appositive (in sense 1), as mustang horse, mustang mare, mustang pony, etc. ΚΠ 1821 S. Austin Jrnl. 5 Sept. in Texas State Hist. Assoc. Q. (1904) 7 300 Mustang horses very plenty saw at least..150. 1884 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 14/2 The Mexican mule, bred by a male ass of a mustang mare, is also a very hardy, strong, and useful animal. 1890 A. C. Gunter Miss Nobody v Sure-footed as these mustang ponies generally are. 1941 Sun (Baltimore) 30 July 7/6 A Spanish vessel loaded with Mustang horses was shipwrecked years ago. 2000 Atlanta Jrnl. & Constit. (Nexis) 4 Oct. jj5 Calvin Cooper's..admiration of his mustang mare is what the Bureau of Land Management seeks when finding people to adopt horses. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1808
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