Mouse - Wiktionary

See also: mouše and Mouse

English

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Alternative forms

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• mowse (obsolete)

Etymology

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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 (Swedish mus, Danish mus, Norwegian mus, Icelandic mús, Faroese 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.

Pronunciation

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• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: mous, IPA(key): /maʊs/

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• (Canada) IPA(key): /mʌʊs/
• Rhymes: -aʊs

Verb

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: mous, mouz, IPA(key): /maʊs/, /maʊz/
• (Canada) IPA(key): /mʌʊs/, /mʌʊz/
• Rhymes: -aʊs, -aʊz

Noun

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mouse (plural mice or (computing) mouses)

1. A rodent, typically having a small body, dark fur, and a long tail.
2. Any small rodent of the genus Mus.
   • 1892, Walter Besant, chapter II, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC: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.
   • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 158:A person smeared with the excrement of a mouse was rendered impotent, according to Pliny the Elder.
   • 2022 June 2, Sandee LaMotte, “The ‘Benjamin Button’ effect: Scientists can reverse aging in mice. The goal is to do the same for humans”, in CNN‎[1]: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.
3. A quiet or shy person.
4. (computing) 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. My mouse needs new batteries.
5. (computing) A pointer. Move the mouse over the icon.
6. (boxing) A facial hematoma or black eye.
7. (nautical) 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.
8. (obsolete) A familiar term of endearment.
   • c. 1599–1602, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, act 3, scene 4:Let the bloat King tempt you again to bed, / Pinch wanton on your cheek, call you his mouse
9. A match used in firing guns or blasting.
10. (set theory) A small model of (a fragment of) Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory with desirable properties (depending on the context).
11. (historical) A small cushion for a woman's hair.
12. Part of a hind leg of beef, next to the round. Synonym: mouse buttock

Hypernyms

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• (small rodent): rodent

Hyponyms

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• birch mouse (Sicista spp.)
• bristly mouse
• cactus mouse
• church mouse
• Cypriot mouse
• deer mouse
• dormouse
• fancy mouse
• fat mouse
• field mouse
• harvest mouse
• hopping mouse
• house mouse (Mus musculus)
• Java mouse-deer
• kangaroo mouse (Microdipodops spp.)
• Malagasy mouse
• meadow jumping mouse
• mouse-goat
• mouse-like hamster
• New World mouse
• Old World mouse
• optical mouse
• pouched mouse
• scorpion mouse
• sleep like a mouse
• southern grasshopper mouse
• spiny mouse
• spiny pocket mouse
• St Kilda field mouse
• Taiwan field mouse
• vesper mouse
• woolly mouse
• woolly mouse opossum
• yellow-necked field mouse
• zebra mouse

Coordinate terms

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• (small rodent): rat
• (input device): joystick, trackpad, trackball, pointing stick

Derived terms

[edit] Terms derived from mouse (noun)

• a cat in gloves catches no mice
• anonymouse
• antimouse
• Arctic mouse-ear
• are you a man or a mouse
• (as) quiet as 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
• mermouse
• mer-mouse
• mice-less
• micromouse
• Middle Mouse
• Mitchell's hopping mouse
• Mosley
• mouseable, mousable
• mouse belt
• mousebird
• mouse bungee
• mouse click
• mouseclick
• mouse-colored
• mouse-colored antshrike
• mouse-deer
• mouse deer
• mousedom
• mouse-ear
• 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
• mouse print
• mouseprint
• 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

Related terms

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• muss

Descendants

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• → Bengali: মাউস (maus)
• → Brazilian Portuguese: mouse
• → French: souris (semantic loan)
• → Georgian: მაუსი (mausi)
• → Italian: mouse
• → Japanese: マウス (mausu)
• → Korean: 마우스 (mauseu)
• → Romanian: mouse
• → Spanish: mouse
• → Thai: เมาส์ (máo), เม้าส์ (máo)
• → Vietnamese: chuột (semantic loan)

Translations

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Abkhaz: аҳәынаҧ (aḥʷənap) Afrikaans: muis (af) Ainu: エㇾㇺ (erm), エㇾム (ermu), エルㇺ (erum) Albanian: mi (sq) m Amharic: አይጥ (ʾäyṭ) Andi: гьинкӏкӏу (hinkkʼu) Arabic: فَأْرَة f (faʔra), (mouse or rat) فَأْر m (faʔr) Egyptian Arabic: فار (fār) Moroccan Arabic: فار (fār) Aragonese: zorz Armenian: մուկ (hy) (muk) Old Armenian: մուկն (mukn) Aromanian: shoaric Assamese: নিগনি (nigoni) Asturian: ratu (ast) m, ratón (ast) m, mur (ast), mure m Atayal: olit (mouse or rat) Avar: гӏункӏкӏ (ʻunkkʼ) Aymara: achaku (ay) Azerbaijani: siçan (az) Balinese: (mouse or rat) bikul, jero ketut Baluchi: مشک (mušk), موشک (múšk) Bangi: mpo Bashkir: сысҡан (sısqan) Basque: sagu (eu) Belarusian: мыш f (myš), мы́шка f (mýška) Bengali: (mouse or rat) ইঁদুর (bn) (ĩdur) Bhojpuri: मूस (mūs) Bouyei: ranz, waauc Breton: logodenn (br) f Bulgarian: ми́шка (bg) f (míška), мишо́к m (mišók) (male) Burmese: (mouse or rat) ကြွက် (my) (krwak) Catalan: ratolí (ca) m Cebuano: ilaga Chamicuro: kijsili Chechen: дахка (daxka) Cherokee: (mouse or rat) ᏥᏍᏕᏥ (tsisdetsi) Chichewa: mbeŵa class 9 Chickasaw: pinti' Chinese: Cantonese: 老鼠 (lou5 syu2) Dungan: лочў (ločw) Eastern Min: 老鼠 (lō̤-chṳ̄) Gan: 老鼠 (lau3 xy) Hakka: 老鼠 (lo-chhú, ló-chhú, no-chhú) Hokkien: 鳥鼠 / 鸟鼠 (zh-min-nan) (niáu-chhí, niáu-chhú), 鼠 (zh-min-nan) (chhí, chhú), 錢鼠 / 钱鼠 (zh-min-nan) (chîⁿ-chhí, chîⁿ-chhú), 老鼠 (ló͘-chhír, ló͘-chhí, niáu-chhú, niáu-chhí, niáu-chhír) Jin: 老鼠 (lau2 su2) Mandarin: 老鼠 (zh) (lǎoshǔ) (mouse or rat), 鼠 (zh) (shǔ) (mouse or rat), 耗子 (zh) (hàozi) (dialectal, mouse or rat), 小鼠 (zh) (xiǎoshǔ) (technical), 鼷 (zh) (xī) (literary) Wu: 老鼠, 老蟲 / 老虫 Xiang: 老鼠子 (lau3 xy3 zr) Chukchi: пипиӄыԓгын (pipiqyḷgyn) Chuvash: шӑши (šăš̬i) Cornish: logosen f Crimean Tatar: sıçan Czech: myš (cs) f, myšák (cs) m (male) Dalmatian: surco m Danish: mus (da) c Dhivehi: މީދާ (mīdā) Dutch: muis (nl) f Eastern Arrernte: thakwere Egyptian: (pnw) Erzya: чеерь (čejeŕ) Esperanto: muso (eo), (♀) musino, musido, (♀) musidino Estonian: hiir (et) Even: ча̄ма̇кчан (cāmȧkcan) Evenki: сиңэрэкэн Ewe: afi n Extremaduran: please add this translation if you can Faroese: mús (fo) f Finnish: hiiri (fi) French: (mouse or rat) souris (fr) f Friulian: surîs f Galician: rato (gl) m Georgian: თაგვი (ka) (tagvi) German: Maus (de) f Alemannic German: Muus f Greek: ποντίκι (el) n (pontíki), ποντικός (el) m (pontikós) Ancient: μῦς m (mûs), ποντικός m (pontikós) Greenlandic: teriaq Gujarati: ઉંદર (undar) Hausa: ɓera Hawaiian: ʻiole liʻiliʻi Hebrew: עַכְבָּר (he) m (akhbár) Hiligaynon: ilaga, balabaw Hindi: (mouse or rat) चूहा (hi) m (cūhā) Hungarian: egér (hu) Icelandic: mús (is) f Ido: muso (io) Igbo: ọke Ilocano: bao Inari Sami: säplig Indonesian: (mouse or rat) tikus (id) Ingush: дахка (daxka) Interlingua: mus, mure Irish: luch (ga) f, luchóg (ga) f Italian: topo (it) m, sorcio (it) m Japanese: (mouse or rat) 鼠 (ja) (ねずみ, nezumi), ネズミ (ja) (nezumi), ハツカネズミ (ja) (hatsukanezumi), マウス (ja) (mausu) Jarai: tơkuih Javanese: tikus (jv) Kalasha: mizók Kalmyk: хулһн (xulğn) Kannada: (mouse or rat) ಇಲಿ (kn) (ili) Kanuri: jilwa Kapampangan: dagis (mouse or rat) Karelian: hiiri Kashubian: mësz f Kazakh: тышқан (tyşqan) Khmer: កណ្ដុរស្រូវ (kɑndao srəw), កណ្ដុរ (km) (kɑndol) (mouse or rat) Khowar: خڑاو (xaɫáu) Kipchak: Armeno-Kipchak: սըչխան (sïč̣χan) Korean: 생쥐 (ko) (saengjwi), (mouse or rat) 쥐 (ko) (jwi) Kriol: brudbrud Kunigami: っゑっちゅー (wwecchū) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: مشک (mişk) Northern Kurdish: mişk (ku) Kven: hiiri Kyrgyz: чычкан (ky) (cıckan) Ladin: please add this translation if you can Lao: (mouse or rat) ໜູ (lo) (nū) Latgalian: pele Latin: (mouse or rat) mūs (la) m or f Latvian: pele (lv) f Lezgi: кьиф (q̇if) Lingala: mpo Lithuanian: pelė (lt) f, pelėnas m Lombard: ratt (lmo) Low German: German Low German: Muus (nds) f Lü: ᦐᦴ (ṅuu) Luganda: emmese Lushootseed: k'ʷat'ad Luxembourgish: Maus (lb) f Macedonian: глушец (mk) m (glušec), глувче n (gluvče), миш m (miš) (dialectal), глушец (mk) m (glušec) Malay: (mouse or rat) tikus (ms), mencit Malayalam: ചുണ്ടെലി (ml) (cuṇṭeli) Maltese: ġurdien m Manchu: ᠰᡳᠩᡤᡝᡵᡳ (singgeri) Mansi: Northern Mansi: ма̄порсуй (māporsuj) Manx: lugh m Maori: kiore (mi) Marathi: उंन्दिर (unndir) Mari: Eastern Mari: коля (koĺa) Western Mari: каля (kaĺa) Mazanderani: گل (gal) Mi'kmaq: apigji'j anim, apugji'j anim Mirandese: rato m Miyako: ゆむぬ (yumunu) Moksha: шеер (šejer) Mongo: mpo Mongolian: Cyrillic: хулгана (mn) (xulgana), оготно (mn) (ogotno) Mongolian: ᠬᠤᠯᠤᠭᠠᠨ᠎ᠠ (quluɣan-a), ᠣᠭᠤᠲᠤᠨ᠎ᠠ (oɣutun-a) Mpade: kusumu Mwani: muku Nahuatl: quimichin (nah) Nanai: сиӈэрэ (siŋere) Navajo: naʼatsʼǫǫsí Neapolitan: sorece m Nepali: मुसो (ne) (muso) Newar: please add this translation if you can Nivkh: мухтук (muxtuk) Norman: souothis f North Frisian: müs n Northern Sami: sáhpán Northern Thai: ᩉ᩠ᨶᩪ Norwegian: Bokmål: mus (no) m or f Nynorsk: mus f Occitan: mirga (oc) f, fureta f, ratuga (oc) f Odia: ମୂଷା (or) (muṣā) Ojibwe: waawaabiganoojiinh Okinawan: ゑんちゅ (wenchu) Old Church Slavonic: Cyrillic: мꙑшь f (myšĭ) Glagolitic: ⰿⱏⰹⱎⱐ f (myšĭ) Old East Slavic: мꙑшь f (myšĭ) Old English: mūs Old Prussian: pelē Osage: įchóka Ossetian: мыст (myst) Ottoman Turkish: صیچان (sıçan), فاره (fare), موش (muş) (mouse or rat) Pannonian Rusyn: миш m (miš), миша f (miša) Pashto: موږک (ps) m (muģak) Persian: Dari: (mouse or rat) مُوش (mūš) Iranian Persian: (mouse or rat) موش (fa) (muš), مُشْک (mošk) (dialectal) Plautdietsch: Mus (nds) f Polish: mysz (pl) f, myszka (pl) f Portuguese: rato (pt) m, (Brazil) camundongo (pt) m Punjabi: ਚੂਹਾ (pa) (cūhā) Punjabi: Gurmukhi: ਚੂਹਾ (pa) m (cūhā) Shahmukhi: چُوہا m (cūhā) Quechua: ukuca, ukuş, juk'ucha Romanian: șoarece (ro) m Romansch: mieur Russian: мышь (ru) f (myšʹ), мы́шка (ru) f (mýška) Rwanda-Rundi: umushushwe class 3/4, imbeba class 9/10 (Rwanda), im-beba (Rundi) S'gaw Karen: ယုၢ် (yu̱) Saek: (mouse or rat) หนู่ Samoan: 'isumu, 'iole Sanskrit: मूष् (sa) m or f (mūṣ), आखु (sa) m (ākhu) Sardinian: tope, topi Campidanese: medrona f, topi, sórixi m Scots: moose Scottish Gaelic: luch f Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ми̏ш m Roman: mȉš (sh) m Shan: ၼူ (shn) (nǔu) Sicilian: surci (scn) m, sùrici (scn) m Sindhi: ڪوُئو (kūʾō) Sinhalese: මීයා (mīyā) Skolt Sami: sä´ppli Slovak: myš (sk) f Slovene: miš (sl) f Somali: jiir (so) m Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: myš f, myška Upper Sorbian: myš f, myška f Sotho: tweba (st) Spanish: ratón (es) m, laucha (es) f (small), pericote (es) m Swahili: kipanya (sw) Swedish: mus (sv) c Tagalog: (mouse or rat) daga (tl) Tahltan: dlūne Tai Dam: ꪘꪴ Tajik: (mouse or rat) муш (tg) (muš) Talysh: морә (morǝ) Tamil: சுண்டெலி (ta) (cuṇṭeli) Taos: cìyúna Tarantino: topo m Tarifit: aɣarda m Tatar: тычкан (tt) (tıçqan) Telugu: (mouse or rat) ఎలుక (te) (eluka) Thai: (mouse or rat) หนู (th) (nǔu) Tibetan: (mouse or rat) ཙི་ཙི (tsi tsi) Tigrinya: ኣንጭዋ (ʾanč̣əwa) (mouse or rat) Tlingit: kagaák Tok Pisin: liklik rat Tongan: kumā Tswana: pêba Tumbuka: mbeŵa class 9 Turkish: fare (tr), sıçan (tr) Turkmen: syçan, sıçan Udmurt: шыр (šyr) Ukrainian: ми́ша (uk) f (mýša), миш f (myš), ми́шка f (mýška), миша́к m (myšák) (dialectal) Urdu: (mouse or rat) چُوہا m (cūhā) Uyghur: چاشقان (chashqan) Uzbek: sichqon (uz) Venetan: ràto, sorze Vietnamese: (mouse or rat) chuột (vi) Vilamovian: maojs Volapük: mug (vo) Walloon: sori (wa) f Welsh: llygoden (cy) f, llygod (cy) pl West Frisian: mûs White Hmong: nas Wolof: janax ji Xhosa: ilifu Yaeyama: うぇんちゅ (Wenchu) Yaghnobi: муш (muš) Yakut: кутуйах (kutuyaq) Yámana: wasána Yao: lipuku class 5 Yiddish: מויז (moyz) Yonaguni: うやんとぅ (uyantu) Yoruba: èkúté, eliri Zazaki: merre (diq) f Zhuang: (mouse or rat) nou Zulu: igundane (zu) class 5/6

shy person

Bulgarian: плах чове́к m (plah čovék) Czech: myška f Danish: mus (da) c Dutch: muisje (nl) n Finnish: hiiri (fi), hiirulainen German: (please verify) graue Maus f (plain Jane) Latvian: pele (lv) f Macedonian: глушец (mk) m (glušec) Persian: Iranian Persian: تَرْسو (tarsô) Polish: myszka (pl) f, cicha myszka f Portuguese: tímido (pt) m Russian: мышь (ru) f (myšʹ), мы́шка (ru) f (mýška) Scottish Gaelic: coinean m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ми̏ш m Roman: mȉš (sh) m

computing: input device

Afrikaans: muis (af) Albanian: miush (sq) m Arabic: فَأْرَة f (faʔra), مَاوْس m (māws) Armenian: մկնիկ (hy) (mknik) Azerbaijani: siçan (az) Basque: sagu (eu) Belarusian: мы́шка f (mýška), мыш f (myš) Bengali: মাউস (bn) (maus) Bulgarian: ми́шка (bg) f (míška) Burmese: ကြွက် (my) (krwak), မောက်စ် (maukc) Catalan: ratolí (ca) m Chinese: Cantonese: 滑鼠 (waat6 syu2) (Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia), (please verify) 老鼠 (lou5 syu2), 鼠標 / 鼠标 (syu2 biu1) (mainland China), 踎士 (mau1 si2) (Hong Kong) (loaned from English, though more commonly simply written as mouse) Hakka: 滑鼠 (va̍t-chhú) Hokkien: 滑鼠 (zh-min-nan) (ku̍t-chhí, ku̍t-chhú) Mandarin: 鼠標 / 鼠标 (zh) (shǔbiāo) (mainland China), 鼠標器 / 鼠标器 (zh) (shǔbiāoqì) (mainland China), 滑鼠 (zh) (huáshǔ) (Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia) Wu: 鼠標 / 鼠标 (5tshy-piau) Czech: myš (cs) f Danish: mus (da) c, computermus c Dutch: muis (nl) f, computermuis (nl) f Esperanto: muso (eo) Estonian: hiir (et) Finnish: hiiri (fi) French: souris (fr) f Galician: rato (gl) m Georgian: მაუსი (mausi) German: Maus (de) f, Computermaus (de) f, Rechnermaus f Greek: ποντίκι (el) n (pontíki) Hebrew: עַכְבָּר (he) m (akhbár) Hindi: माउस (māus) Hungarian: egér (hu) Icelandic: mús (is) f, tölvumús (is) f Ido: muso (io), mauso Indonesian: mouse komputer, tetikus (id) Irish: luch (ga) f, luchóg (ga) f Italian: mouse (it) m, topo (it) m (rare), topino (it) m (rare), topolino (it) m (rare) Japanese: マウス (ja) (mausu) Kazakh: тінтуір (kk) (tıntuır), тышқан (tyşqan) Khmer: កូនកណ្ដុរ (km) (koun kɑndol), ម៉ៅ (km) (maw) Korean: 마우스 (ko) (mauseu) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: mişk (ku) m Kven: hiiri Kyrgyz: чычкан (ky) (cıckan) Lao: ເມົາສ໌ (maos), ຊູລີ (sū lī) Latvian: pele (lv) f Lithuanian: pelė (lt) f Low German: German Low German: Computermuus f, Muus (nds) f, Reeknermuus f Luxembourgish: Maus (lb) f Macedonian: глувче n (gluvče) Malay: tetikus Malayalam: മൗസ് (ml) (mausŭ) Maltese: maws Maori: kiore (mi) Marathi: माउस m (māus) Mongolian: Cyrillic: хулгана (mn) (xulgana) Northern Sotho: maose Norwegian: Bokmål: mus (no) m or f, datamus m or f Nynorsk: mus f, datamus f Persian: Iranian Persian: موشْوارِه (mušvâre), مُوْس (mows), موش (fa) (muš), موشی (fa) (muši), ماوْس (mâvs), ماؤُس (mâ'os) Polish: myszka (pl) f, mysz (pl) f, mysz komputerowa (pl) f Portuguese: (Portugal) rato (pt) m, (Brazil) mouse (pt) m Romanian: maus (ro) n, șoricel (ro) m Russian: мы́шка (ru) f (mýška), мышь (ru) f (myšʹ) Scottish Gaelic: luch f Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ми̏ш m Roman: mȉš (sh) m Slovak: myš (sk) f Slovene: miška (sl) f Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: myška f Spanish: ratón (es) m, mouse m (maus), laucha (es) m or f Swahili: kipanya (sw) Swedish: mus (sv) c, datormus (sv) c Tajik: муш (tg) (muš), мушак (tg) (mušak) Tamil: சுட்டி (ta) (cuṭṭi) Thai: เมาส์ (th) (máo), เม้าส์ (th) (máo) Turkish: fare (tr) Turkmen: syçan Ukrainian: ми́шка f (mýška), ми́ша (uk) f (mýša) Urdu: ماؤُس (māus) Uzbek: sichqon (uz), sichqoncha (uz) Vietnamese: chuột (vi), chuột máy tính Volapük: mugaparat Walloon: sori (wa) f Yakut: кутуйах (kutuyaq), көмпүүтэр кутуйаҕа (kömpüüter kutuyağa) Yiddish: מויז (moyz) Zhuang: aennou, sujbyauh

black eye

Czech: monokl (cs) m French: oeil au beurre noir (fr) m, œil au beurre noir (fr)

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Albanian: (please verify) miu (sq) Breton: (1,2) (please verify) logodenn (br) f Friulian: (please verify) surîs, (please verify) surie Gallurese: (please verify) sórighe m Interlingua: (please verify) mus, (1) (please verify) mure Latin: (please verify) soricia Maltese: (please verify) ġurdien Occitan: (please verify) mirga (oc) Romani: (please verify) xurtso m, (please verify) xurtsaika f Romanian: (please verify) șoarece (ro) Sardinian: (southern) (please verify) medrona f, (please verify) topi, (please verify) sórixi m, (northern) (please verify) sórighe m Sassarese: (please verify) sórighe m Sundanese: (please verify) beurit (su) Welsh: (please verify) llygoden (cy)

Verb

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mouse (third-person singular simple present mouses, present participle mousing, simple past and past participle moused)

1. (intransitive) To move cautiously or furtively, in the manner of a mouse (the rodent) (frequently used in the phrasal verb to mouse around).
2. (intransitive) To hunt or catch mice (the rodents), usually of cats. [from 12th c.]
3. (transitive, nautical) To close the mouth of a hook by a careful binding of marline or wire. Captain Higgins moused the hook with a bit of marline to prevent the block beckets from falling out under slack.
4. (intransitive, computing) To navigate by means of a computer mouse.
   • 1988, MacUser, volume 4:I had just moused to the File menu and the pull-down menu repeated the menu bar's hue a dozen shades lighter.
   • 2009, Daniel Tunkelang, Faceted Search, page 35: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.
5. (obsolete, nonce word, transitive) To tear, as a cat devours a mouse.
   • c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:[Death] mousing the flesh of men.

Derived terms

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• mouse around
• mouse over
• mouser

Related terms

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• muscle
• mussel

Translations

[edit] to mouse around

Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can Dutch: muizen (nl) Esperanto: please add this translation if you can Finnish: hiiviskellä (fi), hiippailla (fi) French: fureter (fr) Galician: please add this translation if you can German: mausen (de) Ido: please add this translation if you can Interlingua: please add this translation if you can Luxembourgish: mausen Middle English: please add this translation if you can Russian: please add this translation if you can Tamil: please add this translation if you can Volapük: please add this translation if you can

to catch mice

Bulgarian: ловя мишки (lovja miški) Dutch: muizen vangen Esperanto: please add this translation if you can Finnish: hiirestää, pyydystää hiiriä French: muloter (fr) Galician: murar (gl), ratear (gl) German: mausen (de), Mäuse fangen Ido: please add this translation if you can Interlingua: please add this translation if you can Luxembourgish: mausen Middle English: mowsyn, musen Russian: лови́ть мышей (lovítʹ myšej) Tamil: எலி பிடி (eli piṭi) Volapük: mugön (vo)

to close the mouth of a hook

Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can Dutch: please add this translation if you can Esperanto: please add this translation if you can Finnish: muusata French: please add this translation if you can Galician: please add this translation if you can German: please add this translation if you can Ido: please add this translation if you can Interlingua: please add this translation if you can Luxembourgish: please add this translation if you can Middle English: please add this translation if you can Russian: please add this translation if you can Tamil: please add this translation if you can Volapük: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

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• mouse on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• mouse (computing) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Category:Mus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Category:Computer mouse on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Mice on Wikiquote.Wikiquote
• Mus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Anagrams

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• meous, moues

Chinese

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Etymology

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From English mouse.

Pronunciation

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• Cantonese (Jyutping): mau1 si2 / maau1 si2

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
    • Jyutping: mau1 si2 / maau1 si2
    • Yale: māu sí / māau sí
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mau1 si2 / maau1 si2
    • Guangdong Romanization: meo1 xi2 / mao1 xi2
    • Sinological IPA (key): /mɐu̯⁵⁵ siː³⁵/, /maːu̯⁵⁵ siː³⁵/

Noun

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mouse

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, computing) mouse (Classifier: 隻／只 c; 個／个 c)

Synonyms

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Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		鼠標器 Mainland China, 滑鼠 Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	滑鼠
	Malaysia	滑鼠
	Singapore	滑鼠
Cantonese	Hong Kong	滑鼠, mouse
	Taishan (Guanghai)	鼠標
Hakka	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	滑鼠
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	滑鼠
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	滑鼠
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	滑鼠
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	滑鼠
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	滑鼠
Southern Min	Xiamen	鼠標
	Quanzhou	鼠標
	Zhangzhou	鼠標
	Kinmen	滑鼠
	Singapore (Hokkien)	滑鼠

Italian

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English mouse.

Pronunciation

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• IPA(key): /ˈma.us/[1]
• Rhymes: -aus

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Noun

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mouse m (invariable)

1. (computing, computer hardware) mouse

Derived terms

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• tappetino per mouse

References

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1. ^ mouse in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Anagrams

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• esumo, esumò, museo

Middle English

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Noun

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mouse

1. alternative form of mous

Portuguese

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English mouse.

Pronunciation

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• (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈmaw.zi/ [ˈmaʊ̯.zi]

• (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈmawʃ/

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• Rhymes: (Brazil) -awzi, (Portugal) -aws
• Hyphenation: mou‧se, mouse

Noun

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mouse m (plural mouses) (Brazil)

1. (computing) mouse (input device used to move a pointer on the screen) Synonym: (Portugal) rato
   • 1997, Bobbi Linkemer, Secretária eficiente, NBL Editora, →ISBN, page 118:Verifique se a esfera do mouse está limpa. O mouse pad ajuda a mantê-lo limpo.Check that the mouse ball is clean. The mouse pad helps to keep it clean.
   • 2015, Douglas Comer, Interligação de Redes com TCP/IP - Vol. 1 - 6ª Edição: Princípios, protocolos e arquitetura, Elsevier Brasil, →ISBN, page 48:O usuário só precisa de um dispositivo de interface com a tela, teclado, mouse ou touchpad, e uma conexão de rede.The user only needs a device that interfaces with the screen, keyboard, mouse or touchpad, and a network connection.
2. (loosely) pointer; cursor (moving icon that indicates the position of the mouse) Synonyms: ponteiro, cursor

Further reading

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• “mouse”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “mouse”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Romanian

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Alternative forms

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• maus

Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English mouse.

Noun

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mouse n (plural mouse-uri)

1. (computing) mouse (for a PC)

Declension

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singular		plural
indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	mouse	mouse-ul	mouse-uri	mouse-urile
genitive-dative	mouse	mouse-ului	mouse-uri	mouse-urilor
vocative	mouse-ule		mouse-urilor

Spanish

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English mouse. Doublet of mur.

Pronunciation

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• IPA(key): /ˈmaus/ [ˈmau̯s]
• Rhymes: -aus

Noun

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mouse m (plural mouses)

1. (computing, chiefly Latin America) mouse (input device) Synonym: ratón

Usage notes

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• According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Further reading

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• “mouse”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010
• Manuel Seco; Olimpia Andrés; Gabino Ramos (3 August 2023), “mouse”, in Diccionario del español actual [Dictionary of Current Spanish] (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA [BBVA Foundation]
• mouse | Diccionario • DELE Ahora