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mousse

English

Etymology

From French mousse (foam, froth), from Old French mosse (moss), from Frankish or Old Dutch mosa (moss), from Proto-Germanic *mus? (moss, bog, marsh). More at moss.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mu?s/
  • Rhymes: -u?s
  • Homophone: moose

Noun

mousse (countable and uncountable, plural mousses)

  1. An airy pudding served chilled, particularly chocolate mousse.
  2. A savory dish, of meat or seafood, containing gelatin.
  3. A styling cream used for hair.
    He slicked his hair back with mousse, but the cowlick still stuck up.
  4. A stable emulsion of water and oil that is created by wave action churning the water where an oil spill occurs.

Descendants

  • ? Irish: mús

Translations

Verb

mousse (third-person singular simple present mousses, present participle moussing, simple past and past participle moussed)

  1. To apply mousse (styling cream).
    He moussed his hair in the morning and then washed it out at night.

Anagrams

  • Smouse, mouses, smouse

Finnish

Etymology

From French mousse.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?mou?s?e/, [?mo?u?s??e?]
  • IPA(key): /?muse?/, [?mus?e??]
  • IPA(key): /?muse/, [?mus?e?]
  • Rhymes: -ous?e
  • Syllabification: mous?se

Noun

mousse

  1. mousse

Declension


French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mus/
  • Rhymes: -us

Etymology 1

Originally from a dialect south of the Loire, from Vulgar Latin *muttius (compare Occitan mos), of Gaulish origin, or alternatively from Latin mutilus (compare Italian mozzo).

Adjective

mousse (plural mousses)

  1. blunt
Derived terms
  • émousser

Etymology 2

From Old French mosse (moss), from Frankish *mosa (moss), from Proto-Germanic *mus? (moss).

For the culinary sense one might suspect influence by Dutch moes, German Mus (both “mush, purée”). However, the metaphorical use of mousse for “foam” is older and the culinary sense can thence be derived without difficulty.

Noun

mousse f (plural mousses)

  1. moss (the plant)
  2. bryophyte (in the broad sense)
  3. foam
  4. mousse (dessert)
    Hypernym: dessert
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
  • ? Danish: mousse
  • ? Dutch: mousse
  • ? English: mousse
    • ? Irish: mús

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Spanish mozo.

Noun

mousse m (plural mousses)

  1. A boy serving on a ship: a cabin boy.
Derived terms
  • moussaillon

Etymology 4

Verb

mousse

  1. first-person singular present indicative of mousser
  2. third-person singular present indicative of mousser
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of mousser
  4. third-person singular present subjunctive of mousser
  5. second-person singular imperative of mousser

Further reading

  • “mousse” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Hungarian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [?mus?]
  • Hyphenation: mousse
  • Rhymes: -us?

Noun

mousse (plural mousse-ok)

  1. mousse (dessert)

Declension

Derived terms

  • csokoládémousse

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from French mousse, from Spanish mozo.

Pronunciation

Noun

mousse m (plural mousses)

  1. (Jersey, nautical) cabin boy

Noun

mousse m or f (plural mousses)

  1. (Jersey) child

Portuguese

Noun

mousse f or m (nonstandard) (plural mousses)

  1. Alternative spelling of musse

Spanish

Etymology

From French mousse.

Noun

mousse f (plural mousses)

  1. mousse

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cream

English

Alternative forms

  • creme (14th century onwards)
  • creyme (14th-15th centuries)

Etymology

From Middle English creime, creme, from Old French creme, cresme, blend of Late Latin chrisma (ointment) (from Ancient Greek ?????? (khrîsma, unguent)), and Late Latin cr?mum (skim), from Gaulish *crama (compare Welsh cramen (scab, skin), Breton crammen), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)krama- (compare Middle Irish screm (surface, skin), Dutch schram (abrasion), Lithuanian kramas (scurf)). Doublet of crema and crème. Displaced native Old English r?am (cream) (> modern ream).Figurative sense of "most excellent element or part" appears from 1581. Verb meaning "to beat, thrash, wreck" is 1929, U.S. colloquial. The U.S. standard of identity is from 21 CFR 131.3(a).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /k?i?m/
  • Rhymes: -i?m

Noun

cream (countable and uncountable, plural creams)

  1. The butterfat/milkfat part of milk which rises to the top; this part when separated from the remainder.
    1. (standards of identity, US) The liquid separated from milk, possibly with certain other milk products added, and with at least eighteen percent of it milkfat.
    2. (standards of identity, Britain) The liquid separated from milk containing at least 18 percent milkfat (48% for double cream).
    3. (tea and coffee) A portion of cream, such as the amount found in a creamer.
  2. A yellowish white colour; the colour of cream.
  3. (informal) Frosting, custard, creamer, or another substance similar to the oily part of milk or to whipped cream.
    • 2004, Joey Green, Joey Green's Incredible Country Store, Rodale, ?ISBN, page 267:
      Originally the cream filling in Oreo cookies was made with pork lard.
  4. (figuratively) The best part of something.
    • 1612, Thomas Shelton (translator), Don Quixote (originally by Miguel de Cervantes)
      Welcome, O flower and cream of Knights-errant.
  5. (medicine) A viscous aqueous oil/fat emulsion with a medicament added, used to apply that medicament to the skin. (compare with ointment)
    • 1756, Oliver Goldsmith, The Double Transformation
      In vain she tries her paste and creams, / To smooth her skin or hide its seams.
  6. (vulgar, slang) Semen.
    • 2001, Darwin Porter, Hollywood’s Silent Closet: The Lusty Saga of America’s First Star F*#%er!![sic] (novel),[1] Blood Moon Productions, Ltd., ?ISBN, page 155,
      He rode me for ten—or was it fifteen?—minutes before one final fuckthrust that filled me completely with his cream.
    • 2003, Dominique Adair, “Two Days, Three Nights” in Tied with a Bow,[2] Ellora’s Cave Publishing, ?ISBN, page 74,
      He tucked his cock into his pants before rubbing his cream into her breasts in slow, teasing strokes.
    • 2004, Art Wiederhold, Wild Flowers,[3] iUniverse, ?ISBN, page 158,
      When he did come, he spurted his cream all over the front of Rosalee’s T-shirt and neck.
  7. (obsolete) The chrism or consecrated oil used in anointing ceremonies.
    • , Book V:
      there shall never harlot have happe, by the helpe of Oure Lord, to kylle a crowned Kynge that with Creyme is anoynted.

Synonyms

  • crème, creme; ream

Descendants

  • ? Chinese: ??, ?? (qílín)
  • ? Hindi: ????? (kr?m)
  • ? Indonesian: krim
  • ? Japanese: ???? (kur?mu)
  • ? Korean: ?? (keurim)
  • ? Thai: ???? (kriim)
  • ? Zulu: ukhilimu

Translations

Adjective

cream (not comparable)

  1. Cream-coloured; having a yellowish white colour.

Synonyms

  • crème, creme

Translations

Verb

cream (third-person singular simple present creams, present participle creaming, simple past and past participle creamed)

  1. To puree, to blend with a liquifying process.
    Cream the vegetables with the olive oil, flour, salt and water mixture.
  2. To turn a yellowish white colour; to give something the color of cream.
  3. (slang) To obliterate, to defeat decisively.
    We creamed the opposing team!
  4. (intransitive, vulgar, slang) To ejaculate (used of either gender).
    • 1971, Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey, “Grease Lightnin’”, Grease
      Danny Zuko: You are supreme / The chicks’ll cream / For grease lightning.
  5. (transitive, vulgar, slang) To ejaculate in (clothing or a bodily orifice).
  6. (transitive, cooking) To rub, stir, or beat (butter) into a light creamy consistency.
  7. (transitive) To skim, or take off by skimming, as cream.
  8. (transitive, figuratively) To take off the best or choicest part of.
  9. (transitive) To furnish with, or as if with, cream.
    • 1871, Adeline Dutton Train Whitney, Real Folks
      creaming the fragrant cups
  10. (intransitive) To gather or form cream.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

Anagrams

  • Carme, McRae, crame, crema, macer, recam

Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [kre?am]

Verb

cream

  1. first-person singular imperfect of crea
  2. first-person plural imperfect of crea

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