Mouser
name, noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A cat that catches mice, kept specifically for the purpose.
- 2 a cat proficient at mousing wordnet
- 3 A moustache. Scotland, US
"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 […]."
- 1 A surname.
Example
More examples"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 […]."
Etymology
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.
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