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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
mosey .
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Examples
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He just kind of moseyed in, said I guess we could get the kids on the school bus at 6: 30 and then take it like it was supposed to be planned.
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Connor "moseyed" accordingly, and kept on "moseying" until he reached the back of the building, and there, standing upright against the rear wall, was the barrel, and beside it, mounted on a chair, a putty-faced boy, a stranger to Tom, who was busy boring a hole in the top of it.
The Boys of Crawford's Basin The Story of a Mountain Ranch in the Early Days of Colorado Chase [Illustrator] Emerson 1887
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With such aspiring feelings as the above, our Stewart's Creek hero "moseyed" off, "three sheets in the breeze," to one of Parson Bellow's night meetings.
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They made a ring, "moseyed" into it, and no cool man -- one who had the least sympathy for his tabernacle -- would have taken the knocks, kicks, bites, gougings, battings, etc., that were given and received by those two duelists for a trifle.
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To us --- to me anyway --- for the time we moseyed the dusty streets of Ghost Town, Marshall Wild Windy Bill McKay was as real a lawman as Wyatt Earp and Wild Bill Hickcock.
Buffalo Bill! The thrill of my life to have invented you! 2010
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To us --- to me anyway --- for the time we moseyed the dusty streets of Ghost Town, Marshall Wild Windy Bill McKay was as real a lawman as Wyatt Earp and Wild Bill Hickcock.
Lance Mannion: 2010
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Our dog Lint moseyed over and lay on my feet, as if trying to back me, as if to say, “How could you ask her that?”
Amaryllis in Blueberry Christina Meldrum 2011
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Who moseyed up to the commission to pitch for the business and then worked on the account?
Hugh Muir's diary 2011
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Coffee cup in hand, Wyatt moseyed on down to the barn, put his coffee cup on a shelf inside the barn next to two other coffee cups.
A Light at Winter’s End Julia London 2011
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After reading the article, I moseyed over to Mr. Verrone's website, and enjoyed this tiny likeness of Dr. Martin Luther King (Verrone sculpts other historic persons, too, not just presidents).
Boing Boing 2009
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