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mouser

/ˈmaʊzə(ɹ)/

mouser noun: a cat that catches mice, kept specifically for the purpose.

mouser: a cat that catches mice, kept specifically for the purpose
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Noun

mouser (plural mousers)

  1. A cat that catches mice, kept specifically for the purpose.
  2. (Scotland, US) A moustache.
    • 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 (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 20

Proper noun capitalized: Mouser

Mouser (plural Mousers)

  1. A surname.

mouser meaning in Tamil

mouser in Tamil

இரைத்தேடித்திரிபவர்

Forms of mouser

Noun
pluralmousers
Proper noun
pluralMousers

Origin of mouser

From Middle English mousere (“a hunter of mice”), equivalent to mouse + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (occupational suffix). The “moustache” sense is apparently an extended usage (i.e., a cat’s whiskers, jocularly transferred to human beings), possibly with influence from moustache.

Words that rhyme with mouser

Questions about mouser

What does mouser mean?
Mouser means a cat that catches mice, kept specifically for the purpose.
What is mouser in Tamil?
Mouser in Tamil is இரைத்தேடித்திரிபவர். See Mouser meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is mouser?
Mouser can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce mouser?
Mouser is pronounced /ˈmaʊzə(ɹ)/.
What is the plural of mouser?
The plural of mouser is mousers.

Words near mouser in the dictionary

  1. mousepox
  2. mousepress
  3. mousepresses
  4. mouseprint
  5. mouseproof
  6. mouser
  7. mouseries
  8. mousers
  9. mousery
  10. mouses
  11. mouses around

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