mouser

[mou-zer]

mous·er

[mou-zer]
noun
1.
an animal that catches mice: Our cat is a good mouser.
2.
a person or thing that seeks or prowls, as if for prey.

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English; see mouse, -er1
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Mouser is always a great word to know.
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
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mouser (ˈmaʊzə, ˈmaʊsə)
 
n
a cat or other animal that is used to catch mice: usually qualified: a good mouser

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