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prushun U.S. slang.|ˈprʌʃən|
[Origin obscure.]
A boy who travels with a tramp and begs for him.
1893Century Mag. Nov. 106/1, I once knew a kid, or prushun, who averaged in Denver nearly three dollars a day. 1899‘J. Flynt’ Tramping with Tramps 396 Prushun, a tramp boy. An ‘ex-prushun’ is one who has served his apprenticeship as a ‘kid’ and is ‘looking for revenge’, i.e., for a lad that he can ‘snare’ and ‘jocker’, as he himself was ‘snared’ and ‘jockered’. 1907J. London Road (1914) 235 If he travels with a ‘profesh’, he [sc. ‘a road-kid’] is known possessively as a ‘prushun’. 1927Dialect Notes V. 459 The tramp lives in idleness while the boy goes about begging food for both. Many continue as prushuns until middle life, and when their master dies are left helpless. |