mush
A directive given to start moving, or to move fasterA directive given (usually to dogs or a horse) to start moving, or to move faster.
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1 sensesA directive given (usually to dogs or a horse) to start moving, or to move faster.
Origin
Believed to be a contraction of mush on, from Michif, in turn a corruption of French marchBelieved to be a contraction of mush on, from Michif, in turn a corruption of French marche (“march”) or marchons!, the cry of voyageurs and coureurs de bois to their dogs. Marche and marchons are respectively the second-person singular and first-person plural imperative forms of marcher (“to move; to travel; to walk”), from Middle French marcher, from Old French marchier, from Frankish *markōn, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *markōną (“to mark; to notice”).
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