mousse
/muːs/
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Northern Ireland/ˈmʉs/
mousse noun: an airy pudding served chilled, particularly chocolate mousse.
Noun
mousse (countable and uncountable, plural mousses)
- An airy pudding served chilled, particularly chocolate mousse.
- A savory dish, of meat or seafood, containing gelatin.
- ham mousse
- A styling cream used for hair.
- He slicked his hair back with mousse, but the cowlick still stuck up.
- A stable emulsion of water and oil that is created by wave action churning the water where an oil spill occurs.
- Pretreatment of oil or sea water with dispersants or demulsifiers generally inhibits laboratory mousse formation with most of the oils and petroleum products tested (Berridge et al. , 1968b; Bridie et al. , 1980a,b).1987, D.F. Boesch, N.N. Rabalais, Long-term Environmental Effects of Offshore Oil and Gas Development, →ISBN
- A number of investigators have shown that the starting composition of a parent oil can have a major influence on its predisposittion to form stable water-in-oil emulsions (mousse). For example, the presence of natural surfactants in the wax, resin, and asphaltene fractions of oils has been...1993, John R. Clayton, James R. Payne, John S. Farlow, Oil Spill Dispersants: Mechanisms of Action and Laboratory Tests, →ISBN, page 21
Verb
mousse (third-person singular simple present mousses, present participle moussing, simple past and past participle moussed)
mousse meaning in Bengali and Persian
mousse in Bengali
- হালকা ফেনাযুক্ত ডেজার্ট, খাবার
mousse in Persian
- dessert
- موس mus
Examples of mousse in a sentence
- A number of investigators have shown that the starting composition of a parent oil can have a major influence on its predisposittion to form stable water-in-oil emulsions (mousse).1993, John R. Clayton, James R. Payne, John S. Farlow, Oil Spill Dispersants: Mechanisms of Action and Laboratory Tests, →ISBN, page 21:
- When it washed ashore in Prince William Sound, the crude came in sticky gobs, in tar balls, in what they called mousse, crude whipped to a froth in the action of the sea.1994, Dana Stabenow, A Cold-Blooded Business, →ISBN, page 50:
- However, the sticky mousse clogged all of the skimmers, even the Vaydaghubsky.2009, Elspeth Leacock, The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, →ISBN, page 37:
Forms of mousse
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | mousses |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | mousses |
| present participle | moussing |
| past participle | moussed |
| past | moussed |
Origin of mousse
From French mousse (“foam, froth”), from Old French mosse (“moss”), from Frankish or Old Dutch *mosa (“moss”), from Proto-Germanic *musą (“moss, bog, marsh”). More at moss.
Words formed from mousse
Words that rhyme with mousse
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- deduce
- sluice
- unloose
- educe
- effuse
- introduce
- produce
- recluse
- reproduce
- Rus
- seduce
- spruce
- excuse
- moose
- traduce
- transduce
- vamoose
- Zeus
- abduce
- abstruse
- adduce
- cruse
- diffuse
- disuse
- doos
- douce
- overproduce
- papoose
- reuse
- truce
- unsluice
- Al-Andalus
- ashy-headed goose
- boose
- burnoose
- caduce
- ceruse
- charlotte russe
- Emden goose
- fog juice
- hoose
- ill-use
- incuse
- luce
- misuse
- noose
- obstruse
- overuse
Questions about mousse
- What does mousse mean?
- Mousse means an airy pudding served chilled, particularly chocolate mousse.
- What is mousse in Bengali?
- Mousse in Bengali is হালকা ফেনাযুক্ত ডেজার্ট, খাবার. See Mousse meaning in Bengali.
- How do you use mousse in a sentence?
- A number of investigators have shown that the starting composition of a parent oil can have a major influence on its predisposittion to form stable water-in-oil emulsions (mousse).
- What part of speech is mousse?
- Mousse can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce mousse?
- Mousse is pronounced /muːs/.
- What is the plural of mousse?
- The plural of mousse is mousses.
Words near mousse in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: mousse (page history and authors); mousse (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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