mousse
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mousse
- /muːs/
- /ˈmʉs/ Northern Ireland, Scotland
Sounds like moose · Rhymes with -uːs
Where it comes from
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.
noun 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).
verb mousses · moussing · moussed
- To apply mousse (styling cream). He moussed his hair in the morning and then washed it out at night.
Translations
Talk about this word "mousse." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/mousse. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. mousse. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/mousse "mousse." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/mousse.Cite this
@misc{mousse_2026,
title = {mousse},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/mousse},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
