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Mouser vs Rouser - What's the difference?

mouser | rouser |

As nouns the difference between mouser and rouser

is that mouser is a cat that catches mice, kept specifically for the purpose while rouser is something very exciting or great.

mouser

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A cat that catches mice, kept specifically for the purpose.
  • (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 * Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office - the official resident cat at

    rouser

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something very exciting or great.
  • One who rouses another from sleep.
  • (colloquial, archaic) A stirrer in a copper for boiling wort.

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