mouse

mouse is a 5-letter English word with 16 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Any one of numerous species of small rodents belonging to the genus Mus and various related genera of the family Muridae. The common house mouse (Mus musculus) is found in nearly all countries. The American white-footed, or deer, mouse (Hesperomys leucopus) sometimes lives in houses. See Dormouse, Meadow mouse, under Meadow, and Harvest mouse, under Harvest. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 9 · 16 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Any one of numerous species of small rodents belonging to the genus Mus and various related genera of the family Muridae. The common house mouse (Mus musculus) is found in nearly all countries. The American white-footed, or deer, mouse (Hesperomys leucopus) sometimes lives in houses. See Dormouse, Meadow mouse, under Meadow, and Harvest mouse, under Harvest.
2. noun. A knob made on a rope with spun yarn or parceling to prevent a running eye from slipping.
3. noun. Same as 2d Mousing, 2.
4. noun. A familiar term of endearment.
5. noun. A dark-colored swelling caused by a blow.
6. noun. A match used in firing guns or blasting.
7. intransitive verb. To watch for and catch mice.
8. intransitive verb. To watch for or pursue anything in a sly manner; to pry about, on the lookout for something.
9. transitive verb. To tear, as a cat devours a mouse.
10. transitive verb. To furnish with a mouse; to secure by means of a mousing. See Mouse, n., 2.
11. noun. any of numerous small rodents typically resembling diminutive rats having pointed snouts and small ears on elongated bodies with slender usually hairless tails
12. noun. a hand-operated electronic device that controls the coordinates of a cursor on your computer screen as you move it around on a pad; on the bottom of the device is a ball that rolls on the surface of the pad

    "a mouse takes much more room than a trackball"

13. noun. person who is quiet or timid
14. noun. a swollen bruise caused by a blow to the eye

    Synonyms: shiner

15. verb. manipulate the mouse of a computer
16. verb. to go stealthily or furtively

    "..stead of sneaking around spying on the neighbor's house"

    Synonyms: creep, pussyfoot, sneak

Synonyms

shiner, creep, pussyfoot, sneak

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in mouse:

meous, moues

Common word forms

moused, mouser, mouses, mousees, mousing

Words from these letters

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