mouser
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mouser¹
- /ˈmaʊzə(ɹ)/
- /ˈmaʊsə(ɹ)/
Rhymes with -aʊzə(ɹ), -aʊsə(ɹ)
Where it comes from
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.
noun mousers
- A cat that catches mice, kept specifically for the purpose.
- 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 […].
Mouser²
proper noun Mousers
- A surname.
Translations
Talk about this word "mouser." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/mouser. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. mouser. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/mouser "mouser." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/mouser.Cite this
@misc{mouser_2026,
title = {mouser},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/mouser},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
