souoris
Norman
editAlternative forms
edit- souothis (Jersey)
Etymology
editFrom Latin sorex, soricis (“shrew, shrewmouse”).
Noun
editsouoris m (plural souoris)
- (Guernsey, France) mouse
- 1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore[1], page 542:
- Chu qu' nou n'a jamais veu, et jamais ne verra,
Ch'est le nic d'une souaris dans l'oreille d'un cat.- One thing you have never seen and will never see, a mouse's nest in a cat's ear.