Meaning & use
Mosey
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To walk in a slow, leisurely, unhurried manner.
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After lunch, they moseyed down to the river to watch the sunset.
He moseyed into the office twenty minutes late, seemingly unbothered by the time.
A note on using this word
Originally American frontier slang, 'mosey' is thought to derive from the Spanish 'vamos' (let's go), though its exact origin is disputed.
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