Synonyms for mouse
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : noun mous; verb mouz |
| Phonetic Transcription : noun maÊŠs; verb maÊŠz |
Définition of mouse
Origin :- Old English mus "small rodent," also "muscle of the arm," from Proto-Germanic *mus (cf. Old Norse, Old Frisian, Middle Dutch, Danish, Swedish mus, Dutch muis, German Maus "mouse"), from PIE *mus- (cf. Sanskrit mus "mouse, rat," Old Persian mush "mouse," Old Church Slavonic mysu, Latin mus, Lithuanian muse "mouse," Greek mys "mouse, muscle").
- Plural form mice (Old English mys) shows effects of i-mutation. Contrasted with man (n.) from 1620s. Meaning "black eye" (or other discolored lump) is from 1842. Computer sense is from 1965, though applied to other things resembling a mouse in shape since 1750, mainly nautical.
- Parturiunt montes, nascetur ridiculus mus [Horace]
- noun rodent
- Lockwood continued to watch Duncan with the air of a cat eyeing a mouse.
- Extract from : « The Fortune Hunter » by Louis Joseph Vance
- It is better to be torn to pieces at a spring, than to be a mouse at the caprice of such a cat.'
- Extract from : « Little Dorrit » by Charles Dickens
- The mouse gnawed a hole in the chest, and fetched out the ring.
- Extract from : « The Chinese Fairy Book » by Various
- Then the cat carried the mouse to the house in which the chest stood.
- Extract from : « The Chinese Fairy Book » by Various
- That thing had me fooled; I thought at first it was a Russian mouse hound.
- Extract from : « Ruggles of Red Gap » by Harry Leon Wilson
- Its ear and its paw are like that of a mouse, and it has a very lively eye.
- Extract from : « The History of Louisiana » by Le Page Du Pratz
- There is another sort, not much bigger than a mouse, and of a bright bay-colour.
- Extract from : « The History of Louisiana » by Le Page Du Pratz
- Why, the sight of a red coat scares you worse than getting chased by a mouse.
- Extract from : « The Law-Breakers » by Ridgwell Cullum
- I exclaimed, "Do you think it possible a mouse can be in the piano?"
- Extract from : « St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. V, August, 1878, No 10. » by Various
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- Extract from : « The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge » by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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