mush, ambulatory, perambulate, test stroll, brisk walk

That’s the funny thing about cars – they feel like another room of the house, an extension on wheels, but they are far more public than that. One driver of a red Land Rover discovered that to her cost this week. Pulled up at a red light, the woman took a slurp of milky mush from a bowl balanced on her knees. Unfortunately for her, David Williams was at the same junction on his bicycle, and filmed her with his helmet camera. “Put that down,” he shouts through the window. “You’re on camera.” He then uploaded the footage to YouTube, set about sharing it on social media and handed it over to Surrey Police, whose enquiries are still “ongoing”. At the last count, the YouTube clip had had 356,067 views.

Why a Brisk Walk Is Better

well.blogs.nytimes.com

If you are walking to improve your health, it’s time to stop strolling and pick up the pace, reports Gretchen Reynolds in this week’s Phys Ed column.

In later books like “Ben, in the World,” “The Sweetest Dream” and “The Grandmothers,” Ms. Lessing struggled to integrate her gifts: her matter-of-fact ability to conjure a specific place and time, already on display in her first novel “The Grass Is Singing,” her psychological insight and eye for sociological detail honed in the Martha Quest novels and her later penchant for fairy-tale allegories and sci-fi perambulations.

Dmitry Kostyukov for The New York Times

Moscow Journal

Writers Lead a ‘Test Stroll’ in Moscow

By ELLEN BARRY 53 minutes ago

Ten thousand people participated in an experiment by 12 prominent authors who wanted to see if they could march from one city park to another without a permit.

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ambulatoryLine breaks: am¦bu|la¦tory

Pronunciation: /ˈambjʊlət(ə)ri/

Definition of ambulatory in English:

adjective

1Relating to or adapted for walking:continuous ambulatory dialysisfive similar pairs of ambulatory legs

perambulate (puh-RAM-byuh-layt)

verb tr.
1. To walk through.
2. To inspect (an area) on foot.

verb intr.
To walk about; roam or stroll.

Etymology
Latin perambulare, perambulat- : per-, + ambulare, to walk.

Usage
"Seventeen years ago, at an age when many men are reduced to perambulating the mall, Vaughan entered his first Iditarod, the 1,160-mile trans-Alaska dogsled race that turns much younger mushers into mush." — William Plummer, At His Peak Norman Vaughan, 87, sets out to climb the icy mountain bearing his name, People, 15 Nov 1993.

perambulate

Pronunciation: /pəˈrambjʊleɪt/

verb

[no object] formal or humorous

• walk or travel through or round a place:the locals perambulate up and down the thoroughfare[with object]:she perambulated the square
•  [with object] British historical walk round (a parish, forest, etc.) in order to officially assert and record its boundaries:commissioners were appointed to perambulate the Devon forests before Whitsun 1319

perambulation
noun

perambulatory
adjective

Origin:

late Middle English: from Latin perambulat- 'walked about', from the verb perambulare, from per- 'all over' + ambulare'to walk'

stroll

[動](自)［I（[副]）］1 〈人が〉ぶらつく；散歩する((around；in, through ...))（▼牛などについてはwanderを使う） stroll through the pa...

stroller

[名]1 ((米))（折りたたみ式の）ベビーカー（((英))pushchair）.2 ぶらぶら歩きをする人, 散歩する人.3 放浪者；旅役者.

verb

[no object]

• walk in a leisurely way:I strolled around the city

noun

• 1a short leisurely walk.

• 2a victory or objective that is easily achieved.

Origin:

early 17th century (in the sense 'roam as a vagrant'): probably from German strollen, strolchen, from Strolch 'vagabond', of unknown ultimate origin

mush¹ (mŭsh)
n.

1. A thick porridge or pudding of cornmeal boiled in water or milk.
2. Something thick, soft, and pulpy.
3. Informal. Mawkish sentimentality, affection, or amorousness.

tr.v., mushed, mush·ing, mush·es.
To reduce to mush; mash or crush.

[Probably alteration of MASH.]

brisk

Syllabification: (brisk)

Pronunciation: /brisk/

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adjective

• active, fast, and energetic:a good brisk walk business appeared to be brisk
• (of the weather or wind) cold but fresh and enlivening.
• sharp or abrupt:the brisk, dismissive nod of her head

Derivatives

briskly

adverb

briskness

noun

Origin:

late 16th century: probably from French brusque (see brusque)

mush² (mŭsh)

v., mushed, mush·ing, mush·es. v.intr.
To travel, especially over snow with a dogsled.

v.tr.
To drive (a dogsled or team of dogs).

n.
A journey, especially by dogsled.

interj.
Used to command a team of dogs to begin pulling or move faster.

[Possibly alteration of French marchons, first person pl. imperative of marcher, to walk, go, from Old French. See march¹.]

musher mush'er n.