mouser

English

Etymology

From mouse +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aʊzə(r), -aʊsə(r)

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, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 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 […].

Related terms

• Chief Mouser
• Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office - the official resident cat at 10 Downing Street

Translations

cat that catches mice

• French: souricier (fr) m
• Hungarian: egerész (hu)

• Russian: мышелов (ru) (myšelov)
• Volapük: (male or female) mugamakat (vo), (male) mugamahikat (vo), (female) mugamajikat (vo)

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Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA: [mʌusər]

Noun

mouser (plural mousers)

1. moustache

Synonyms

• moutash