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mouser
English
Etymology
From Middle English mousere (“a hunter of mice”), equivalent to mouse +? -er.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -a?z?(r), -a?s?(r)
Noun
mouser (plural mousers)
- A cat that catches mice, kept specifically for the purpose. [from 15th c.]
- (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 terms
- Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office: the official resident cat at 10 Downing Street
Translations
Anagrams
- -merous, moeurs, oremus
Middle English
Noun
mouser
- Alternative form of mousere
Scots
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [m?us?r]
Noun
mouser (plural mousers)
- moustache
- Synonym: moutash
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mousey
English
Adjective
mousey
- Alternative spelling of mousy
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