proot
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Uncertain; compare the earlier proo.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /pɹuːt/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Rhymes: -uːt
Interjection
[edit]proot
- A command to a donkey or mule to move faster.
- 1879 June, Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes, London: C. Kegan Paul & Company, →OCLC, page 18:
- [He] taught me the true cry or masonic word of donkey-drivers, ‘Proot!’
- 1917, Charles S. Brooks, There's Pippins and Cheese to Come, New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, →OCLC, page 38:
- The window is handed in [to a wicker carriage]. Her feet are wound around with comforters against a draft... Her ample bag of knitting is safe aboard... Proot! The donkey starts.
Anagrams
[edit]Hunsrik
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle High German and Old High German brōt.
Noun
[edit]proot
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