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発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaʊzə(ɹ)/, /ˈmaʊsə(ɹ)/
• 韻: -aʊzə(ɹ), -aʊsə(ɹ)

名詞

mouser (複数形 mousers)

1. A cat that catches mice, kept specifically for the purpose. [from 15th c.]
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 […].

関連する語

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

参照

アナグラム

• -merous, moeurs, oremus