| 释义 |
proot, int.|pruːt|
[Etym. obscure.]
A command to a donkey to move faster. Hence proot v. intr. To cry proot. Cf. proo int.
1879R. L. Stevenson Trav. with Donkey 18 [He] taught me the true cry or masonic word of donkey-drivers, ‘Proot!’ Ibid. 20 ‘Proot!’ seemed to have lost its virtue. I prooted like a lion, I prooted mellifluously like a sucking-dove; but Modestine would be neither softened nor intimidated. 1950L. G. Green In Land of Afternoon ix. 132 One expert driver..encourages his mules by yelling the principal parts of Greek verbs... The word of command ‘Proot!’, which appears to have come from France with the Huguenots, is more commonly heard. |