mouser

See also: Mouser

Contents

EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Middle English mousere (“a hunter of mice”), equivalent to mouse +‎ -er.

PronunciationEdit

• Rhymes: -aʊzə(r), -aʊsə(r)

NounEdit

mouser (plural mousers)

1. A cat that catches mice, kept specifically for the purpose.
2. (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 […].

Related termsEdit

• Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office: the official resident cat at 10 Downing Street

TranslationsEdit

cat that catches mice

• Albanian: micë (sq) f
• French: souricier (fr) m
• Hungarian: egerész
• Pennsylvania German: Mauskatz

• Russian: мышелов (ru) (myšelov)
• Serbo-Croatian: mišolovac (sh) m
• Volapük: (♂♀) mugamakat, (♂) mugamahikat, (♀) mugamajikat

AnagramsEdit

• -merous, moeurs, oremus

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Middle EnglishEdit

NounEdit

mouser

1. Alternative form of mousere

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ScotsEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): [mʌusər]

NounEdit

mouser (plural mousers)

1. moustache

SynonymsEdit

• moutash