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Definition: MOUSING |
MOUSINGAdjective1. Impertinently inquisitive; prying; meddlesome. Noun1. A ratchet movement in a loom. 2. 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 straighening out. 3. The act of hunting mice. Personal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Mouse |
Date "MOUSING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1595. (references) |
"MOUSING" is a common misspelling or typo for: dousing, housing, mooing, musing, mussing, rousing, sousing. |
Crosswords: MOUSING |
| English words defined with "MOUSING": mouser ♦ Sister hooks. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Much Ado About Mousing (1964) | |
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Expression using "MOUSING": mousing hook. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
mousing | 6 |
mousing surface | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "MOUSING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
German | mausend (pilfering). (various references) | ||||
Manx | lugheraght (mouse). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ousingmay | ||||
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Words beginning with "MOUSING": mousings. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-i-m-n-o-s-u" | |
-1 letter: gonium, mungos, musing. | |
-2 letters: gismo, minus, mungo, munis, muons, onium, suing, using. | |
-3 letters: gins, gnus, gums, guns, ions, migs, miso, mogs, mons, mugs, muni, muns, muon, nims, nogs, noms, nous, onus, sign, sing, smog, smug, snog, snug, song, sumo, sung. | |
-4 letters: gin, gnu, gos, gum, gun, ins, ion, ism, mig, mis, mog, mon, mos. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-i-m-n-o-s-u" | |
+1 letter: mousings, moussing. | |
+2 letters: consuming, costuming, gumptions, ignoramus, mouldings, mountings, mournings, oogoniums, origanums, summoning. | |
+3 letters: ascogonium, ausforming, coassuming, combusting, gramineous, gumshoeing, immunogens, leguminous, migrainous, misquoting, misrouting, outshaming, outsmiling, outsmoking, sporangium, subkingdom, summonsing, unbosoming, unimposing. | |
+4 letters: accustoming, angiomatous, anisogamous, communising, customising, customizing, dismounting, fumigations, gadoliniums, glucosamine, gourmandise, gourmandism, ignominious, ignoramuses, ligamentous, magnanimous, microfungus, miscounting, misdoubting, misfocusing, missounding, mistouching, mistutoring, monologuist, monseigneur, mushrooming, outmuscling, outscheming, outsmarting, outswimming, resummoning, slumgullion, smouldering, sporogonium, subkingdoms, surmounting, unambiguous, unpromising. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 4F 55 53 49 4E 47 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- --- ..- ... .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01001111 01010101 01010011 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M O U S I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 004F 0055 0053 0049 004E 0047 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)47495553434841 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Expressions 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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