ˈmushrat
= musk-rat 1, 2. N. Amer.
| 1890 Dialect Notes I. 74 Mushrat, the muskrat or musquash. 1901 R. Connor Man from Glengarry 19 The Glengarry men..despised the Murphy gang as sawlogmen; ‘log-rollers’ or ‘mushrats’ they called them. 1939 W. Faulkner Wild Palms 218 If I took aboard every floating sardine can you sonabitchin mushrats want me to I wouldn't even have room forrard for a leadsman. 1939 T. H. Raddall Pied Piper 45 An' I'm goin' to play hell with you, you game-poachin', fish-spearin', wood-stealin' ol' mushrat! 1954 C. Bruce Channel Shore 18 Stan was carrying on..talk of mushrats and rabbit-snaring. 1954 Encounter Oct. 3/2 All the lesser beasts—coon and possum and beaver and mink and mushrat (not muskrat: mushrat); they were still there. |