mouser
See also: Mouser
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EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle English mousere (“a hunter of mice”), equivalent to mouse + -er.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
mouser (plural mousers)
- A cat that catches mice, kept specifically for the purpose.
- (chiefly Scotland, US) A moustache.
- 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 20:
- He was a pretty man, well upstanding, with great shoulders on him and his hair was fair and fine and he had a broad brow and a gey bit coulter of a nose and he twisted his mouser ends up with wax like that creature the German Kaiser […].
- 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 20:
Related termsEdit
- Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office: the official resident cat at 10 Downing Street
TranslationsEdit
cat that catches mice