mouser
see also: Mouser
Noun
Mouser
Proper noun
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see also: Mouser
Noun
mouser (plural mousers)
- A cat that catches mice, kept specifically for the purpose.
- (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 […].
- 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 20:
- Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office: the official resident cat at 10 Downing Street
- French: souricier
- Russian: мышелов
Mouser
Proper noun
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