Query: "book" = leave, run away

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 Grant Barrett writes:
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>I thought it was fairly clear that "boogie" most likely derives from the
>intransitive French verb bouger, meaning "to move, budge, stir" or its
>conjugation bougez, which is an imperative form, the formal present tense
>third person singular form, and the present tense third person plural form,
>or bougé, the masculine past participle form, all three pronounced the same
>way: boo-jzhay. A typical anglophone mispronunciation puts you immediately
>very close to "boogie." We could also in this context talk about the origin
>of "to budge."
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Is this also where "boogie-woogie" comes from?  The "walking bass" was one
of its features, IIRC. When I hear an expression like "boogie on outa
here,"  it makes me think of movement propelled by that rhythm.
A. Murie