different between mousse vs mousle

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

English

Alternative forms

• mouzle

Verb

mousle (third-person singular simple present mousles, present participle mousling, simple past and past participle mousled)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To sport with roughly; to rumple.

Anagrams

• mesuol, oleums, somule