It's the word of the day for November 7th.
Today's word is VAMUS, spelled V-A-M-O-O-S-E.
VAMUS is a verb.
VAMUS is an informal word that means to depart quickly.
Here's the word used in a sentence from the Picton County Weekly News.
I spotted the culprit, a young raccoon, attempting to dislodge one of my feeders.
Caught in the act, he ran for his life when I opened the window and told him to vamoose.
In the 1820s and 30s, the American Southwest was rough and tumble territory, the true Wild West.
English-speaking cowboys, Texas Rangers,
and gold prospectors regularly rubbed elbows with Spanish-speaking vaqueros.
In the local saloons, and a certain amount of linguistic intermixing was inevitable.
One Spanish term that caught on with English speakers was vamos, which means let's go.
Cowpokes and dudes alike adopted the word,
at first using a range of spellings and pronunciations that varied considerably in their proximity to the original Spanish form.
But when the dust settled, the version most American English speakers were using was vamos.
With your Word of the Day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.