musher

Meanings

1. One who drives a dogsled over ice and snow; specifically, one who participates in a dogsled race.
2. One who travels over snow, chiefly by dogsled but also by foot.

1. Synonym of mush (“a cab driver who is the owner of their cab, and sometimes a small number of other cabs as well”).

1. A mushroom.

Etymology

From mush (“to drive dogs, usually pulling a sled, across snow”) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns). Mush is probably derived from French marche or marchons, respectively the second-person singular and first-person plural imperative forms of marcher (“to move; to travel; to walk”), from Proto-Germanic *markōną (“to mark; to notice”), from *marką (“mark; sign; stamp”), possibly related to *markō (“border, boundary; area, region”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *merǵ- (“(noun) border, boundary, edge; (verb) to divide”).