Mouser

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aÊŠzÉ™(r), -aÊŠsÉ™(r)

Origin

From mouse + -er.

Full definition of mouser

Noun

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 ….

Related terms

• Chief Mouser
• Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office - the official resident cat at 10 Downing Street