mosey
/ˈməʊzi
/informal
verb (mosey, moseying, moseyed) [no object, with adverbial of direction]
Walk or move in a leisurely manner: we decided to mosey on up to Montgomery...
- We moseyed on over to the theatre as leisurely as we could, and yet we still got there roughly twenty minutes early.
- However, this wasn't good enough, so after 10 heated minutes I moseyed on home to get my passport.
- So I moseyed down to the video shop and borrowed The Matrix.
noun chiefly British
A leisurely walk or drive: I’ll just have a mosey round...
- We're off to Brick Lane and Shoreditch for a mosey round.
- We skipped the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim and instead took a mosey around a few private galleries on the Upper East Side.
- Following a recent mosey around the retailers, I noticed two more retailers that appear ostensibly cheap.
Origin
Early 19th century (originally US): of unknown origin. The original sense was 'go away quickly'.
Rhymes
- great skua
- Great Slave Lake
- great smoke
- Great Smoky Mountains
- great snipe
- Great Society
- great son
- Great Spirit
- great spotted kiwi
- great spotted woodpecker
- great-stomached
- Great Synagogue
- great thought
- Great Thursday
- great tit
- great titmouse
- great tradition
- Great Trek
- great-uncle
- great vessel
- Great Victoria Desert
- Great Wall of China
- Great War
- Great Week
- Great Wen