"mousse" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /muːs/, /ˈmʉs/ [Northern-Ireland, Scotland] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-mousse.wav , en-us-moose.ogg Forms: mousses [plural]
Rhymes: -uːs Etymology: From French mousse (“foam, froth”), from Old French mosse (“moss”), from Frankish or Old Dutch *mosa (“moss”), from Proto-Germanic *musą (“moss, bog, marsh”). More at moss. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|fr|mousse||foam, froth}} French mousse (“foam, froth”), {{der|en|fro|mosse||moss}} Old French mosse (“moss”), {{der|en|frk|-}} Frankish, {{der|en|odt|*mosa||moss}} Old Dutch *mosa (“moss”), {{der|en|gem-pro|*musą||moss, bog, marsh}} Proto-Germanic *musą (“moss, bog, marsh”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} mousse (countable and uncountable, plural mousses)
  1. An airy pudding served chilled, particularly chocolate mousse. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (dessert): мус (mus) [masculine] (Bulgarian), escuma [feminine] (Catalan), 幕斯 (mùsī) (Chinese Mandarin), 慕斯 (mùsī) (Chinese Mandarin), 慕絲 /慕丝 (mùsī) (Chinese Mandarin), mousse (Finnish), mousse [feminine] (French), Mousse [feminine] (German), ムース (mūsu) (Japanese), uzpūtenis [masculine] (Latvian), موس (mus) (Persian), mus [masculine] (Polish), musse [feminine] (Portuguese), mousse [feminine] (Portuguese), мусс (muss) [masculine] (Russian), espuma [feminine] (Spanish), mousse [feminine, masculine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-mousse-en-noun-eg2TdYla Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Latvian translations, Terms with Persian translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Desserts Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 39 4 4 47 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 31 9 10 36 14 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 31 9 10 36 14 Disambiguation of Terms with Japanese translations: 31 9 10 36 14 Disambiguation of Terms with Latvian translations: 31 9 10 36 14 Disambiguation of Terms with Persian translations: 31 9 10 36 14 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 30 9 9 35 18 Disambiguation of Desserts: 44 6 6 42 3 Disambiguation of 'dessert': 67 16 7 10
  2. A savory dish, of meat or seafood, containing gelatin. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-mousse-en-noun-NCxQtfOp
  3. A styling cream used for hair. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-mousse-en-noun-p2z-~7jJ Categories (other): Hair Disambiguation of Hair: 20 0 61 19 0
  4. A stable emulsion of water and oil that is created by wave action churning the water where an oil spill occurs. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (beauty product): 摩絲 /摩丝 (mósī) (Chinese Mandarin), muotovaahto (Finnish), Schaumfestiger [masculine] (German), waihuka (Maori), huka makawe (Maori), waihuka makawe (Maori), pani hukahuka (Maori), espuma [feminine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-mousse-en-noun-EnjJKJw6 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Latvian translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Maori translations, Terms with Persian translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Desserts Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 39 4 4 47 7 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 25 5 6 55 8 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 30 9 9 38 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 31 9 10 36 14 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 28 8 9 42 13 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 27 7 8 43 15 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 31 9 10 36 14 Disambiguation of Terms with Japanese translations: 31 9 10 36 14 Disambiguation of Terms with Latvian translations: 31 9 10 36 14 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 30 9 9 39 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Maori translations: 28 8 9 42 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Persian translations: 31 9 10 36 14 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 25 8 14 35 18 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 30 9 9 35 18 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 32 7 8 41 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 32 6 7 44 12 Disambiguation of Desserts: 44 6 6 42 3 Disambiguation of 'beauty product': 26 2 2 70

Verb

IPA: /muːs/, /ˈmʉs/ [Northern-Ireland, Scotland] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-mousse.wav , en-us-moose.ogg Forms: mousses [present, singular, third-person], moussing [participle, present], moussed [participle, past], moussed [past]
Rhymes: -uːs Etymology: From French mousse (“foam, froth”), from Old French mosse (“moss”), from Frankish or Old Dutch *mosa (“moss”), from Proto-Germanic *musą (“moss, bog, marsh”). More at moss. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|fr|mousse||foam, froth}} French mousse (“foam, froth”), {{der|en|fro|mosse||moss}} Old French mosse (“moss”), {{der|en|frk|-}} Frankish, {{der|en|odt|*mosa||moss}} Old Dutch *mosa (“moss”), {{der|en|gem-pro|*musą||moss, bog, marsh}} Proto-Germanic *musą (“moss, bog, marsh”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} mousse (third-person singular simple present mousses, present participle moussing, simple past and past participle moussed)
  1. To apply mousse (styling cream).
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Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-06-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-05-20 using wiktextract (3dadd05 and f1c2b61). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.