mustang
See also: Mustang
English edit
Etymology edit
From Mexican Spanish mestengo, from Old Spanish mesteño (“feral animal”) or mestengo (“feral animal”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
mustang (plural mustangs)
- A small, hardy, naturalized (feral) horse of the North American west.
- 1846, Thomas Bangs Thorpe, The Mysteries of the Backwoods[1], Carey and Hart, page 12:
- The mustang pony, the invariable companion of the inhabitant of the prairie, whether he is rich or poor, is a little creature, apparently narrow-chested, and small across the loins.
- 1851, Mayne Reid, edited by Charles J. Skeet, The Scalp Hunters; Or, Romantic Adventures in Northern Mexico, volume 3, page 145:
- Having ridden a distance of two or three miles, Garey slackened his pace, and put the mustang to a slow walk.
- (US, military slang) A merchant marine who joined the U.S. Navy as a commissioned officer during the American Civil War.
- 1903, James Hoyt (editor), Seen & Heard by Megargee, L.N. Megargee, page 1754:
- He is a product of the merchant marine and is one of the officers called "Mustangs" who entered the navy during the Civil War.
- 1939, Fred J. Buenzle, Bluejacket, W. W. Norton & Company, page 179:
- He was the son of a famous artist, and was what we termed a "mustang" officer, who had come into the navy from the merchant service during the Civil War.
- 1903, James Hoyt (editor), Seen & Heard by Megargee, L.N. Megargee, page 1754:
- (US, military slang, generalized) A commissioned officer who started military service as an enlisted person.
- September-December 1918, Alfred Emanuel Smith, New Outlook, volume 120, Outlook Publishing Company, page 417:
- […] and the chief engineer is a "mustang" — that is, an officer who has risen from the ranks of enlisted men.
- 1943, Josef Israels, He's in the Marine Corps Now, R.M. McBride & Company, page 170:
- Mustang— Officer who came up through the ranks. None better.
Translations edit
horse
Verb edit
mustang (third-person singular simple present mustangs, present participle mustanging, simple past and past participle mustanged)
Anagrams edit
Czech edit
Noun edit
mustang m anim
- mustang (horse)
Declension edit
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
French edit
Noun edit
mustang m (plural mustangs)
Further reading edit
- “mustang”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English mustang.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
mustang m animal
- mustang (small, hardy, naturalized (feral) horse of the North American west)
- Hypernym: koń
- Ford Mustang car
- (usually in the plural) jeans or shoes by Mustang Holding
Declension edit
Declension of mustang
singular | plural | |
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nominative | mustang | mustangi |
genitive | mustanga | mustangów |
dative | mustangowi | mustangom |
accusative | mustanga | mustangi |
instrumental | mustangiem | mustangami |
locative | mustangu | mustangach |
vocative | mustangu | mustangi |
Further reading edit
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English mustang.
Noun edit
mustang m (plural mustangi)
Declension edit
Declension of mustang
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) mustang | mustangul | (niște) mustangi | mustangii |
genitive/dative | (unui) mustang | mustangului | (unor) mustangi | mustangilor |
vocative | mustangule | mustangilor |