proot
English
WOTD – 27 April 2016
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A man on a donkey in Nagorno-Karabakh
Etymology
Origin uncertain; compare the earlier proo.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɹuːt/
Interjection
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 904539439, 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 765186, 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.
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