mousse

English

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /muːs/
• Rhymes: -uːs
• Homophone: moose

Noun

mousse (plural mousses)

1. An airy pudding served chilled, particularly chocolate mousse.
2. A savory dish, of meat or seafood, containing gelatin.
3. A styling cream used for hair.

   He slicked his hair back with mousse, but the cowlick still stuck up.

Translations

dessert

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 幕斯 (cmn) (mùsī), 慕斯 (cmn) (mùsī), 慕絲 (cmn), 慕丝 (cmn) (mùsī)

• French: mousse (fr) f
• German: Mousse (de) f

• Japanese: ムース (ja) (mūsu)
• Portuguese: musse (pt) m (Brazil, popular, informal), musse (pt) f
• Russian: мусс (ru) (muss) m
• Spanish: crema batida (es) f

meat dish

beauty product

• Spanish: espuma (es) f

Verb

mousse (third-person singular simple present mousses, present participle moussing, simple past and past participle moussed)

1. To apply mousse (styling cream).

   He moussed his hair in the morning and then washed it out at night.

Anagrams

• mouses

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA: /mus/

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Etymology 1

Adjective

mousse (masculine and feminine, plural mousses)

1. blunt

Etymology 2

From Frankish *mosa.

Noun

mousse f (plural mousses)

1. moss (the plant)
2. foam
3. mousse (dessert)

Etymology 3

From Spanish mozo.

Noun

mousse m (plural mousses)

1. A boy serving on a ship: a cabin boy.

Derived terms

• moussaillon

Etymology 4

Verb

mousse

1. first-person singular present indicative of mousser
2. third-person singular present indicative of mousser
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of mousser
4. first-person singular present subjunctive of mousser
5. second-person singular imperative of mousser

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Jèrriais

Etymology

From French mousse.

Noun 1

mousse m (plural mousses)

1. (nautical) cabin boy

Noun 2

mousse m and f (plural mousses)

1. child