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Wooʹsh

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when addressed to horses, means “Bear to the left.” In the West of England they say Woag—i.e. wag off (Anglo-Saxon, woh, a bend or turn). Wooʹsh is “Move off a little.”

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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