musher
One who drives a dogsled over ice and snowOne who drives a dogsled over ice and snow; specifically, one who participates in a dogsled race.
Meaning
4 sensesOne who drives a dogsled over ice and snow; specifically, one who participates in a dogsled race.
a traveler who drives (or travels with) a dog team
One who travels over snow, chiefly by dogsled but also by foot.
(London, slang)Synonym of mush (“a cab driver who is the owner of their cab, and sometimes a small number of other cabs as well”).
(England, dialectal)A mushroom.
Examples
1 sentencesJim is a musher.
ruДжим - погонщик собак. — shanghainese
Origin
From mush (“to drive dogs, usually pulling a sled, across snow”) + -er (suffix forming ageFrom mush (“to drive dogs, usually pulling a sled, across snow”) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns). Mush is probably derived from French marche or marchons, respectively the second-person singular and first-person plural imperative forms of marcher (“to move; to travel; to walk”), from Proto-Germanic *markōną (“to mark; to notice”), from *marką (“mark; sign; stamp”), possibly related to *markō (“border, boundary; area, region”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *merǵ- (“(noun) border, boundary, edge; (verb) to divide”).
Origin uncertain, possibly from mush (“cab driver who is the owner of their cab, and sometimes a small number of other cabs as well”) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns), although the word is attested slightly earlier than mush. Mush is possibly derived from mush (“to drive dogs, usually pulling a sled, across snow”, verb) (see etymology 1), or mush (“(slang, rare) umbrella”, noun) (a clipping of mushroom, from the similar appearance; referring to drivers shielding passengers with umbrellas in rainy weather).
Clipping of musher(oom) or musher(oon), variants of mushroom.
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plural: mushersSynonyms
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