What does mouser mean?

Definitions for mouser
ˈmaʊ zərmous·er

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. mousernoun

    a cat proficient at mousing

GCIDE

  1. Mousernoun

    A cat that catches mice; as, a good mouser is better than a dozen mousetraps.

Wiktionary

  1. mousernoun

    A cat that catches mice, kept specifically for the purpose.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Mousernoun

    One that catches mice.

    Etymology: from mouse.

    Puss, a madam, will be a mouser still. Roger L'Estrange.

    When you have fowl in the larder, leave the door open, in pity to the cat, if she be a good mouser. Jonathan Swift.

ChatGPT

  1. mouser

    A mouser is an animal, typically a cat, that is skilled or used for catching mice.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Mousernoun

    a cat that catches mice

  2. Mousernoun

    one who pries about on the lookout for something

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. mouser

    In the British army, a sobriquet which was sometimes used in sport to distinguish the battalion men from the flank companies. It was indeed generally applied to them by the grenadiers and light bobs, meaning that while the latter are detached, the former remain in quarters, like cats to watch the mice, etc.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. MOUSER

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Mouser is ranked #10224 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Mouser surname appeared 3,153 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Mouser.

    94% or 2,965 total occurrences were White.
    2% or 63 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    1.5% or 50 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    1.4% or 47 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
    0.5% or 16 total occurrences were Black.
    0.3% or 12 total occurrences were Asian.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of mouser in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of mouser in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

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