"mouser" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈmaʊzə(ɹ)/, /ˈmaʊsə(ɹ)/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-mouser.wav [Southern-England] Forms: mousers [plural]
Rhymes: -aʊzə(ɹ), -aʊsə(ɹ) Etymology: From Middle English mousere (“a hunter of mice”), equivalent to mouse + -er. The “moustache” sense is apparently an extended usage (i.e., a cat’s whiskers, jocularly transferred to human beings), possibly with influence from moustache. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|mousere|t=a hunter of mice}} Middle English mousere (“a hunter of mice”), {{suffix|en|mouse|er}} mouse + -er, {{m|en|moustache}} moustache Head templates: {{en-noun}} mouser (plural mousers)
  1. A cat that catches mice, kept specifically for the purpose. [from :Template:SAFESUBST: c.] Translations (cat that catches mice): micë [feminine] (Albanian), rater (Catalan), ratador (Catalan), souricier [masculine] (French), murador [masculine] (Galician), egerész (Hungarian), Mauskatz (Pennsylvania German), мышелов (myšelov) (Russian), mišolovac [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), råttfångarkatt [common-gender] (Swedish), mugamakat [feminine, masculine] (Volapük), mugamahikat [masculine] (Volapük), mugamajikat [feminine] (Volapük)
    Sense id: en-mouser-en-noun-yFMtGsHs Disambiguation of 'cat that catches mice': 98 2
  2. (chiefly Scotland, US) A moustache. Tags: Scotland, US Categories (topical): Hair Related terms (Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office): the official resident cat at 10 Downing Street
    Sense id: en-mouser-en-noun-fo9xVUpQ Disambiguation of Hair: 6 94 Categories (other): American English, Scottish English, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -er Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 43 57 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 28 72 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -er: 29 71 Disambiguation of 'Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office': 21 79

Inflected forms

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