different between mouser vs pistol

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

Probably from Middle French pistole, which probably via Middle High German forms like pischulle from Czech píš?ala (“firearm”, literally “tube, pipe”), from Proto-Slavic *piš?al?, from *piskati, *piš?ati (“to squeak, whistle”), from Proto-Balto-Slavic *p??k-.

Alternatively, from Middle English pistolet, from Middle French pistolet (“small firearm or small dagger”), from or related to Italian pistolese (“short dagger”), from Italian Pistoia (“a Tuscan town noted for its gunsmithing”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?st?l/
• Rhymes: -?st?l

Noun

pistol (plural pistols)

1. A handgun, typically with a chamber integrated in the barrel, a semi-automatic action and a box magazine. [1570s]
2. The mechanical component of a fuse in a bomb or torpedo responsible for firing the detonator.
3. A creative and unpredictable jokester, a constant source of entertainment and surprises.
   • February 2012, Thomas Pugsley, Denial (episode) in Young Justice (TV series):

     KENT NELSON —Until my wife Inza convinced me there was more to life. Ah, she was a real pistol, that Inza.

   • 2012, Jimmy Correa, How My Prank Stories in ‘You Tube’ Made Me an Overnight Sensation, iUniverse, page 102:

     She features so many dance tunes and is a pistol with her sharp and witty remarks.

4. (Southern US) A small boy who is bright, alert and very active.
5. (American football) An offensive formation in which the quarterback receives the snap at a distance behind the center, but closer than in a shotgun formation, with a running back lined up behind him.

Usage notes

Shooters normally differentiate between a pistol and a revolver, which is named after its rotating chamber; however, in common usage, the word pistol is also imprecisely used to refer to any type of handgun.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

pistol (third-person singular simple present pistols, present participle pistoling, simple past and past participle pistoled)

1. (transitive) To shoot (at) a target with a pistol.

See also

• derringer
• pistole
• gat
• rod

Further reading

• Pistol offense on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• pilots, postil, potlis, sploit, spoilt

References

Cebuano

Alternative forms

• piskot

Etymology

A minced oath of pisti.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: pis?tol

Interjection

pistol

1. expressing anger, surprise, excitement, etc.

Danish

Etymology

From Middle French pistole or from German Pistole, either from Italian pistola or from Czech píš?ala (“whistle”), from Proto-Slavic *piš?al?, from *piskati, *piš?ati (“to squeak, whistle”), from Proto-Balto-Slavic *p??k-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pisto?l/, [p?i?sd?o??l]
• Rhymes: -o?l

Noun

pistol c (singular definite pistolen, plural indefinite pistoler)

1. handgun, pistol

Inflection

See also

• pistol on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay pistol, from Dutch pistool. Ultimately from Czech píš?ala (“whistle”), from Proto-Slavic *piš?al?, from *piskati, *piš?ati (“to squeak, whistle”), from Proto-Balto-Slavic *p??k-.

Noun

pistol (first-person possessive pistolku, second-person possessive pistolmu, third-person possessive pistolnya)

1. a pistol (gun)

Malay

Etymology

From Dutch pistool. Ultimately from Czech píš?ala (“whistle”), from Proto-Slavic *piš?al?, from *piskati, *piš?ati (“to squeak, whistle”), from Proto-Balto-Slavic *p??k-.

Noun

pistol (plural pistol-pistol, informal 1st possessive pistolku, impolite 2nd possessive pistolmu, 3rd possessive pistolnya)

1. a pistol (gun, handheld short firearm weapon)

Further reading

• “pistol” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Czech píš?ala (“whistle, because of the shape”), via German Pistole

Noun

pistol m (definite singular pistolen, indefinite plural pistoler, definite plural pistolene)

1. a pistol (firearm)

References

• “pistol” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Czech píš?ala (“whistle”), via German Pistole

Noun

pistol m (definite singular pistolen, indefinite plural pistolar, definite plural pistolane)

1. a pistol (firearm)

References

• “pistol” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romanian

Etymology

From Greek ??????? (pistóli)

Noun

pistol n (plural pistoale)

1. pistol

Declension

Swedish

Etymology

Ultimately from Czech píš?ala (“whistle”), from Proto-Slavic *piš?al?, from *piskati, *piš?ati (“to squeak, whistle”), from Proto-Balto-Slavic *p??k-.

Pronunciation

Noun

pistol c

1. a pistol (gun)

Declension

Related terms

See also

• revolver