different between mouser vs mousery

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?z?(r), -a?s?(r)

Noun

mouser (plural 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 […].

Related terms

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

Translations

Anagrams

• -merous, moeurs, oremus

Middle English

Noun

mouser

1. Alternative form of mousere

Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [m?us?r]

Noun

mouser (plural mousers)

1. moustache

   Synonym: moutash

English

Etymology

mouse +? -ery

Noun

mousery (plural mouseries)

1. (rare) A place where mice are kept and bred.
   • 1965, George Washington Corner, A History of the Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Univ. Press, p. 228 (Google preview):

     There was indeed a mousery of vast proportions, far from general view on an upper floor. . . . A member of the Institute's research staff, unaware of its existence and unexpectedly admitted, found himself in a city of mice, thousands of them, elaborately housed and cared for.

Anagrams

• Seymour