different between muser vs mouser

English

Etymology

From Middle English musere, equivalent to muse +? -er.

Noun

muser (plural musers)

1. One who muses.

Anagrams

• Esrum, Mure?, Remus, Sumer, merus, mures, murse, resum, semur, serum

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /my.ze/

Verb

muser

1. (intransitive) to wander about, usually aimlessly

   Synonyms: errer, flâner

Conjugation

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• meurs, mures, mûres, sérum, Sumer

Old French

Alternative forms

• amuser

Verb

muser

1. to ponder; to think about
2. to stare at in amazement
3. to loiter; waste time

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ss, *-st are modified to s, st. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

Descendants

• Middle French: amuser
  • French: amuser
  • ? Middle English: amusen
    • English: amuse
• Middle French: muser
  • French: muser
  • Italian: musare
• Norman: amuser, amûther
• Picard: amuseu, museu (Athois)
• Walloon: amûzer (Charleroi, Liégeois), amusè (Forrières)
• ? Middle Dutch: musen
  • Dutch: muizen
  • West Flemish: musen
• ? Middle English: musen, moysen, mousen
  • English: muse

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (muser)
• muser on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

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