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Webster 1828 Edition


Mouser

MOUSER

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Noun.
mouz'er. One that catches mice. The cat is a good mouser.

Definition 2024


mouser

mouser

English

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 […].

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Scots

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [mʌusər]

Noun

mouser (plural mousers)

  1. moustache

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