mouser

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English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmaʊzə(ɹ)/, /ˈmaʊsə(ɹ)/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -aʊzə(ɹ), -aʊsə(ɹ)

Noun

mouser (plural mousers)

  1. A cat that catches mice, kept specifically for the purpose.
  2. (chiefly Scotland, US) A moustache.
    • 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 20:
      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 […].

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Translations

References

  1. ^ “mouser”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from W Grant and D D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.

Anagrams

Middle English

Noun

mouser

  1. Alternative form of mousere

Scots

Etymology

Apparently an extended usage of English mouser (“a cat”), hence a cat’s whiskers, jocularly transferred to human beings, possibly with influence from moustache.

Pronunciation

Noun

mouser (plural mousers)

  1. moustache
    Synonym: moutash

References

  1. ^ “mouser”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from W Grant and D D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.
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