mouso

English

Etymology

From mouse +‎ -o, by analogy with typo.

Noun

mouso (plural mousos)

1. (slang, rare, computing) An error caused by incorrect use of a computer mouse.

   Near-synonym: clicko

   • 1995 August 12, Tommy Thorn, “Re: Undo or Not”, in rec.games.go‎^[1] (Usenet):

     In general I think it is poor sportsmanship to gain on a^[sic] opponent _physical_ slip (mouso, typo and such), but quite ok on _mental_ slips. I find it equally bad sport to _ask_ for undo, on a mental slip.

   • 1998 October 23, in...@fdhoekstra.nl, “Re: [I] Rubik's Cube”, in alt.fan.pratchett‎^[2] (Usenet):

     Nice. How do you get it to back up, or start over? I made a mouso and now it's unsolveable.

   • 1999 February 26, Stan Brown, “Re: Gravity - Two Questions”, in alt.usenet.offline-reader‎^[3] (Usenet):

     Just last night, I was selecting multiple files for deletion. I made a "mouso" and Windows thought I had double-clicked a bat file. I was reduced to ejecting the diskette to stop that batch file.