mouser

From Middle English mousere (“a hunter of mice”), equivalent to mouse +‎ -er.

• Rhymes: -aʊzə(r), -aʊsə(r)

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 […].

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

• -merous, moeurs, oremus

mouser

1. Alternative form of mousere

• IPA^(key): [mʌusər]

mouser (plural mousers)

1. moustache

• moutash