hurrooshv.
/hʌˈruːʃ/ transitive.
To drive with the cry ‘hurroosh!’ or ‘hurrish!’. Also absol.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > causing to go away > command to go away [verb (transitive)] > drive away > birds or animals
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1839 J. D. Hooker Jrnl. in L. Huxley Life & Lett. J. D. Hooker (1918) I. iv. 91 He used..to start up, take his stick, shout, hooroosh..and scare the poor little snips out of their senses.
1864 Mrs. H. Wood Trevlyn Hold II. xviii. 264 When he was put to hurrish the crows away from the land.
1884 Upton Gloss. (E. D. S.) Hurrish, to drive cattle.
1895 J. Barlow Strangers at Lisconnel 41 You might as well try to huroosh one chicken off a rafter and not scare the couple that were huddled beside it.
Derivatives
huˈrroosh n.
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > commotion, disturbance, or disorder > [noun] > instance of
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1836 Knickerbocker 8 208 When they were all free, they began to sky-lark and kick up a hooroosh in all quarters.
1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick cxx. 563 What a hooroosh aloft there!
1888 R. Kipling Miss Youghal's Sais in Plain Tales from Hills 28 There was a wild hurroosh at the Club.
1923 Chambers's Jrnl. Jan. 17/2 A wild hooroush ensued.
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