people's-logic

Updated: May 27, 2025

We should incline to think the slang verb to mosey a mere variety of form, and that its derivation from a certain absconding Mr. Post, ergo propter, is good people's-logic; and if an antecedent be wanting, it will not be long before one is invented.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860