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

• Russian: мышелов (ru) (myšelov)
• Volapük: (♂♀) mugamakat, (♂) mugamahikat, (♀) mugamajikat

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§Scots

§Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mʌusər]

§Noun

mouser (plural mousers)

1. moustache

§Synonyms

• moutash