proot
/pɹuːt/
proot interjection: a command to a donkey or mule to move faster.
Interjection
- A command to a donkey or mule to move faster.
- [He] taught me the true cry or masonic word of donkey-drivers, ‘Proot!’1879 June, Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes, London: C. Kegan Paul & Company, →OCLC, page 18
- 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.1917, Charles S. Brooks, There's Pippins and Cheese to Come, New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, →OCLC, page 38
Noun
proot (plural proots)
Synonyms of proot
Forms of proot
| plural | proots |
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Origin of proot
Uncertain; compare the earlier proo.
Mutated clipping of protogen.
Words that rhyme with proot
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- cute
- moot
- overshoot
- recruit
- salute
- volute
- dispute
- impute
- pollute
- scoot
- snoot
- substitute
- chute
- depute
- dilute
- hoot
- loot
- pursuit
- reboot
- scute
- uproot
- Beirut
- cahoot
- Clute
- convolute
- lute
- zoot
- ablute
- Aleut
- argute
- astute
- beaut
- bruit
- compute
- coot
- doot
- en route
- glout
- jute
- minute
- newt
- poot
- refute
- repute
- resolute
- 'tute
- angel lute
- butte
Questions about proot
- What does proot mean?
- Proot means a command to a donkey or mule to move faster.
- What part of speech is proot?
- Proot can be an interjection or a noun.
- How do you pronounce proot?
- Proot is pronounced /pɹuːt/.
Words near proot in the dictionary
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