mouse
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *múHs
Proto-Germanic *mūs
Proto-West Germanic *mūs
Old English mūs
Middle English mous
English mouse
Inherited from Middle English mous, from Old English mūs, from Proto-West Germanic *mūs, from Proto-Germanic *mūs, from Proto-Indo-European *múHs.
Cognates
Germanic cognates include Old Frisian mūs, Old Saxon mūs (German Low German Muus), Dutch muis, Old High German mūs (German Maus), Old Norse mús (Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish mus, Faroese and Icelandic mús).
Indo-European cognates include Ancient Greek μῦς (mûs), Latin mūs, Spanish mur, Armenian մուկ (muk), Old Church Slavonic мꙑшь (myšĭ) (Russian мышь (myšʹ)), Albanian mi, Persian موش (muš), Northern Kurdish mişk, Sanskrit मूष् (mūṣ).
The computing sense was coined by American engineer Bill English in 1965 and first used publicly in a publication titled "Computer-Aided Display Control", in reference to the similarity with the animal.
Inflected forms:
form: mice
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mouses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mowse
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: mouses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: mousing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: moused
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: moused
pos: verb
tags: past
form: mowse
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Any mammal of the many rodent families (especially Muridae) that have a small body and a long tail.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: Near-synonyms: murine, murid, vole (all parasynonymous with this broad sense)
gloss: Any mammal of the many rodent families (especially Muridae) that have a small body and a long tail.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: At twilight in the summer there is never anybody to fear—man, woman, or cat—in the chambers and at that hour the mice come out. They do not eat parchment or foolscap or red tape, but they eat the luncheon crumbs.
A person smeared with the excrement of a mouse was rendered impotent, according to Pliny the Elder.
In molecular biologist David Sinclair’s lab at Harvard Medical School, old mice are growing young again. […] After injecting the virus into the eye, the pluripotent genes were then switched on by feeding the mouse an antibiotic.
gloss: Any mammal of the many rodent families (especially Muridae) that have a small body and a long tail.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
figuratively
examples: She's probably hiding in her room, she always does when we have company. She's our little mouse.
gloss: Any mammal of the many rodent families (especially Muridae) that have a small body and a long tail.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
figuratively
obsolete
examples: Let the bloat King tempt you again to bed, / Pinch wanton on your cheek, call you his mouse
gloss: An input device that is moved over a pad or other flat surface to produce a corresponding movement of a pointer on a graphical display.
pos: noun
examples: My mouse needs new batteries.
gloss: An input device that is moved over a pad or other flat surface to produce a corresponding movement of a pointer on a graphical display.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: Move the mouse over the icon.
gloss: A facial hematoma or black eye.
pos: noun
gloss: A turn or lashing of spun yarn or small stuff, or a metallic clasp or fastening, uniting the point and shank of a hook to prevent its unhooking or straightening out.
pos: noun
gloss: A match used in firing guns or blasting.
pos: noun
gloss: A small model of (a fragment of) Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory with desirable properties (depending on the context).
pos: noun
gloss: A small cushion for a woman's hair.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: Part of a hind leg of beef, next to the round.
pos: noun
gloss: To move cautiously or furtively, in the manner of a mouse (the rodent) (frequently used in the phrasal verb to mouse around).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To hunt or catch mice (the rodents), usually of cats.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To close the mouth of a hook by a careful binding of marline or wire.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Captain Higgins moused the hook with a bit of marline to prevent the block beckets from falling out under slack.
gloss: To navigate by means of a computer mouse.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I had just moused to the File menu and the pull-down menu repeated the menu bar's hue a dozen shades lighter.
Unlike the Flamenco work, the Relation Browser allows users to quickly explore a document space using dynamic queries issued by mousing over facet elements in the interface.
gloss: To tear, as a cat devours a mouse.
pos: verb
tags: nonce-word
obsolete
transitive
examples: [Death] mousing the flesh of men.
Related words: muss
muscle
mussel
Derived words: a cat in gloves catches no mice
anonymouse
antimouse
Arctic mouse-ear
are you a man or a mouse
Baker's small-toothed harvest mouse
bastard big-footed mouse
big-footed mouse
bit by a barn mouse
brush-furred mouse
brush-tailed mouse
cat and mouse
cat-and-mouse
churchmouse
city mouse
clit mouse
cotton mouse
Count Branicki's mouse
country mouse
creepmouse
Darling Downs hopping mouse
demouse
desert mouse
Doogie mouse
dormouse
dust mouse
fieldmouse
flindermouse
flitter-mouse
flittermouse
flying mouse
Formosan wood mouse
giant mouse lemur
glacier mouse
grasshopper mouse
greater big-footed mouse
greater mouse-eared bat
hog mouse
intermouse
intramouse
is there a mouse in your pocket
joint mouse
jumping mouse
knockout mouse
lab mouse
laboratory mouse
left-mouse
Madame Berthe's mouse lemur
marsupial mouse
meadow mouse
mechanical mouse
mer-mouse
mermouse
mice-less
micromouse
Middle Mouse
Mitchell's hopping mouse
Mosley
mouseable
mousable
mouse belt
mousebird
mouse bungee
mouseclick
mouse click
mouse-colored
mouse-colored antshrike
mouse-deer
mouse deer
mousedom
mouse-ear
mouse-eared
mouse-eared bat
mouse-ear hawkweed
mousefall
mousefish
mousefucker
mouse gun
mouse-hearted
mousehole
mousehood
mouse jiggler
mouse jiggling
Mouseketeer
mousekin
mousekind
mouse lemur
mouseless
mouselet
mouselike
mouseling
mouselook
mouse mat
mouse melon
mouse mill
mouseness
mouse opossum
mouseover
mouse-over
mousepad
mouse pad
mouse pointer
mouse potato
mousepox
mouseprint
mouse print
mouseproof
mouser
mousery
mousesicle
mouse-sight
mouse slip
mouse spider
mousetail
mousetrap
mouse-warbler
mouse wheel
mousework
mousie
mousy
mute as a mouse
nipple mouse
nonmouse
northern birch mouse
northern grasshopper mouse
nouse
oldfield mouse
oncomouse
painted bristly mouse
Petter's big-footed mouse
play cat and mouse
pocket mouse
poor as a church mouse
premouse
quiet as a church mouse
rell-mouse
reremouse
ricefield mouse
right-mouse
rock mouse
Rudd's mouse
sable mouse
sand mouse
sea mouse
seamouse
sheath-tailed mouse
shrewmouse
striped field mouse
strong enough to trot a mouse on
sugar mouse
supermouse
the best laid plans of mice and men go oft astray
the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry
the second mouse gets the cheese
timid as a mouse
vertical mouse
water mouse
when the cat's away the mice will play
white-footed mouse
wood mouse
woodmouse
yellow-necked mouse
you got a mouse in your pocket
you got a mouse in your purse
quiet as a mouse
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: muis
lang: Albanian
word: miush
lang: Arabic
word: فَأْرَة
roman: faʔra
lang: Arabic
word: مَاوْس
roman: māws
lang: Armenian
word: մկնիկ
roman: mknik
lang: Azerbaijani
word: siçan
lang: Basque
word: sagu
lang: Belarusian
word: мы́шка
roman: mýška
lang: Belarusian
word: мыш
roman: myš
lang: Bengali
word: মাউস
roman: maus
lang: Bulgarian
word: ми́шка
roman: míška
lang: Burmese
word: ကြွက်
roman: krwak
lang: Burmese
word: မောက်စ်
roman: maukc
lang: Catalan
word: ratolí
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 滑鼠
roman: waat⁶ syu²
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 老鼠
roman: lou⁵ syu²
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 鼠標 /鼠标
roman: syu² biu¹
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 踎士
roman: mau¹ si²
lang: Hakka Chinese
word: 滑鼠
roman: va̍t-chhú
lang: Chinese
word: 滑鼠
roman: ku̍t-chhí, ku̍t-chhú
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 鼠標 /鼠标
roman: shǔbiāo
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 鼠標器 /鼠标器
roman: shǔbiāoqì
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 滑鼠
roman: huáshǔ
lang: Wu Chinese
word: 鼠標 /鼠标
roman: ⁵tshy-piau
lang: Czech
word: myš
lang: Danish
word: mus
lang: Danish
word: computermus
lang: Dutch
word: muis
lang: Dutch
word: computermuis
lang: Esperanto
word: muso
lang: Estonian
word: hiir
lang: Finnish
word: hiiri
lang: French
word: souris
lang: Galician
word: rato
lang: Georgian
word: მაუსი
roman: mausi
lang: German
word: Maus
lang: German
word: Computermaus
lang: German
word: Rechnermaus
lang: Greek
word: ποντίκι
roman: pontíki
lang: Hebrew
word: עַכְבָּר
roman: akhbár
lang: Hindi
word: माउस
roman: māus
lang: Hungarian
word: egér
lang: Icelandic
word: mús
lang: Icelandic
word: tölvumús
lang: Ido
word: muso
lang: Ido
word: mauso
lang: Indonesian
word: mouse komputer
lang: Indonesian
word: tetikus
lang: Irish
word: luch
lang: Irish
word: luchóg
lang: Italian
word: mouse
lang: Italian
word: topo
lang: Italian
word: topino
lang: Italian
word: topolino
lang: Japanese
word: マウス
roman: mausu
lang: Kazakh
word: тінтуір
roman: tıntuır
lang: Kazakh
word: тышқан
roman: tyşqan
lang: Khmer
word: កូនកណ្ដុរ
roman: koun kɑndol
lang: Khmer
word: ម៉ៅ
roman: maw
lang: Korean
word: 마우스
roman: mauseu
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: mişk
lang: Kven
word: hiiri
lang: Kyrgyz
word: чычкан
roman: cıckan
lang: Lao
word: ເມົາສ໌
roman: maos
lang: Lao
word: ຊູລີ
roman: sū lī
lang: Latvian
word: pele
lang: Lithuanian
word: pelė
lang: Low German
word: Computermuus
lang: Low German
word: Muus
lang: Low German
word: Reeknermuus
lang: Luxembourgish
word: Maus
lang: Macedonian
word: глувче
roman: gluvče
lang: Malay
word: tetikus
lang: Malayalam
word: മൗസ്
roman: mausŭ
lang: Maltese
word: maws
lang: Māori
word: kiore
lang: Marathi
word: माउस
roman: māus
lang: Mongolian
word: хулгана
roman: xulgana
lang: Northern Sotho
word: maose
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: mus
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: datamus
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: mus
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: datamus
lang: Iranian Persian
word: موشْوارِه
roman: mušvâre
lang: Iranian Persian
word: مُوْس
roman: mows
lang: Iranian Persian
word: موش
roman: muš
lang: Iranian Persian
word: موشی
roman: muši
lang: Iranian Persian
word: ماوْس
roman: mâvs
lang: Iranian Persian
word: ماؤُس
roman: mâ'os
lang: Polish
word: myszka
lang: Polish
word: mysz
lang: Polish
word: mysz komputerowa
lang: Portuguese
word: rato
lang: Portuguese
word: mouse
lang: Romanian
word: maus
lang: Romanian
word: șoricel
lang: Russian
word: мы́шка
roman: mýška
lang: Russian
word: мышь
roman: myšʹ
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: luch
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ми̏ш
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: mȉš
lang: Slovak
word: myš
lang: Slovene
word: miška
lang: Lower Sorbian
word: myška
lang: Spanish
word: ratón
lang: Spanish
word: mouse (maus)
lang: Spanish
word: laucha
lang: Swahili
word: kipanya
lang: Swedish
word: mus
lang: Swedish
word: datormus
lang: Tajik
word: муш
roman: muš
lang: Tajik
word: мушак
roman: mušak
lang: Tamil
word: சுட்டி
roman: cuṭṭi
lang: Thai
word: เมาส์
roman: máo
lang: Thai
word: เม้าส์
roman: máo
lang: Turkish
word: fare
lang: Turkmen
word: syçan
lang: Ukrainian
word: ми́шка
roman: mýška
lang: Ukrainian
word: ми́ша
roman: mýša
lang: Urdu
word: ماؤُس
roman: māus
lang: Uzbek
word: sichqon
lang: Uzbek
word: sichqoncha
lang: Vietnamese
word: chuột
lang: Vietnamese
word: chuột máy tính
lang: Volapük
word: mugaparat
lang: Walloon
word: sori
lang: Yakut
word: кутуйах
roman: kutuyaq
lang: Yakut
word: көмпүүтэр кутуйаҕа
roman: kömpüüter kutuyağa
lang: Yiddish
word: מויז
roman: moyz
lang: Zhuang
word: aennou
lang: Zhuang
word: sujbyauh