muso

See also: Appendix:Variations of "muso"

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English musician

English -o

English muso

From musician + -o (“diminutive suffix”).

Pronunciation

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -uːzəʊ

Noun

muso (plural musos)

1. (UK, Australia, New Zealand, informal) Diminutive of musician.
   • 2000 May 5, Justin French, “Heads up, Yes me again Mr m3a Smart mouth”, in alt.music.journalism‎^[1] (Usenet):

     I don't expect you to understand the hours involved in becoming a talented muso, rehearsing for months, writing a hit, recording the song, marketing the band, pressing the CDs and trying to get airplay / make some record sales... but you should be able to find a similar problem in your work...

   • 2001 March 5, Gary Meadows, “Darn it!”, in aus.culture.true-blue‎^[2] (Usenet):

     Yeah...I probably wouldn't change have changed plans anyway. I'm sure my wife and children will get more out of a family day than if we headed into the big concrete jungle (aka city) to watch a few musos.

   • 2001 March 27, Mr Q. Z. Diablo, “[long] will the real goth please stand up”, in aus.culture.gothic‎^[3] (Usenet):

     Don't blame the musos. Blame the marketers, A&R men and record company execs. You don't imagine for a moment that musos sought to inflict Bardot, Britney and Christina on an unsuspecting public. Even the producers are only guilty of trying to feed themselves by attempting to write and execute popular songs that appeal to the LCD.

2. (UK, Australia, New Zealand, informal) A pretentious music fan.
   • 2008 March 23, Jaimie Hodgson, “When kuduro came to town”, in The Observer‎^[4], →ISSN:

     'This is how we do it in Lisbon,' he warns with gruff Portuguese annunciation. Immediately the intimate and packed crowd of party-loving young musos submit to the almighty bass quake, squawking synthesisers and furious thrusting rhythms of kuduro, the latest imported urban dance flavour.

   • 2018 October 5, Ben Beaumont-Thomas, Laura Snapes, “Has 10 years of Spotify ruined music?”, in The Guardian‎^[5]:

     It is a badge of pride for musos to say that Spotify’s machine-learning algorithms – when you listen to a track and it recommends things you might also like – don’t cover their cosmopolitan taste.

References

• (pretentious music fan): Tony Thorne (2014), “muso”, in Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, 4th edition, London;  […]: Bloomsbury

Anagrams

• MOUs, MoUs, Mous, SUMO, SuMo, Sumo, soum, sumo, USOM

Bambara

Pronunciation

• \mù.so\

Noun

muso

1. woman
2. wife

Derived terms

• kɔɲɔmuso

Catalan

Verb

muso

1. first-person singular present indicative of musar

Dyula

Noun

muso

1. woman

Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowed from Indo-European languages, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *múHs.

The computing sense is a semantic loan from English mouse.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmuso/

• Audio 1:

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• Audio 2:

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• Audio 3:

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• Rhymes: -uso
• Syllabification: mu‧so

Noun

muso (ronĝulo)

muso (accusative singular muson, plural musoj, accusative plural musojn)

1. mouse (rodent of the genus Mus)

   Hypernym: ronĝulo

   Hyponyms: musido, musino

   Holonym: musaro

Derived terms

• dormomuso (“dormouse”)
• kampomuso (“field mouse”)
• Miĉjo Muso (“Mickey Mouse”)
• Minjo Muso (“Minnie Mouse”)
• musa (“murine”)
• mustruo (“mousehole”)

komputila muso

Noun

muso (accusative singular muson, plural musoj, accusative plural musojn)

1. (computing) mouse (computer input device)

Derived terms

• musklako (“mouseclick”)
• muskursoro (“mouse pointer”)
• musmato (“mousepad”)
• musumi (“to manipulate a mouse”)

Further reading

• “muso”, in Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto [Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto], 2020, →ISBN
• “muso”, in Reta Vortaro [Online Dictionary] (in Esperanto), 1997-2026

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from Esperanto muso, English mouse, German Maus, Russian мышь (myšʹ), all ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *muh₂s.

The computing sense is a semantic loan from English mouse.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmuso/

Noun

muso (plural musi)

1. mouse (rodent)
2. (computing) mouse

Italian

Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin mūsus (“muzzle”), of uncertain etymology but probably expressive of the shape of protruded lips and/or influenced by Latin mūgīre (“to moo, bellow”). Cognates include Old Spanish and Lombard mus and muson, Middle French musel, English muzzle. Not related to Spanish morro (“hill; muzzle”), Occitan morre (“hill; muzzle”), Provençal mourre (“muzzle; rock”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmu.zo/
• Rhymes: -uzo
• Hyphenation: mù‧so

Noun

muso m (plural musi, diminutive musino)

1. muzzle (of an animal)
2. (derogatory) mug, face (of a person)
3. nose (of an aircraft)
4. front (of a car etc.)

Related terms

• a muso duro
• smusare
• smusata

Further reading

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “mūsus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 6/3: Mobilis–Myxa, page 275

Anagrams

• sumo

Mandinka

Noun

muso

1. woman
2. wife

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmuso/ [ˈmu.so]
• Rhymes: -uso
• Syllabification: mu‧so

Etymology 1

From Latin musa.

Noun

muso m (plural musos)

1. muse

Etymology 2

Verb

muso

1. only used in me muso, first-person singular present indicative of musirse

Further reading

• “muso”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Venetan

Alternative forms

• musso (traditional orthography)

Etymology

Cognate with Friulian mus, Ladin müsc as well as Ladin musciat. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmu.so/
• Hyphenation: mù‧so

Noun

muso m (plural musi)

1. donkey, ass

   Synonym: àxeno

Derived terms

• musa
• musada
• musareło
• musaro, muser
• musin

Yoruba

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mṹ.sò/

Interjection

músò

1. hooray, an expression used to denote happiness or joy.