Definitions

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  • noun nonstandard A cat that catches moths.

Etymologies

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Coined from moth by analogy to mouser.

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Examples

  • Senjin had never loved anyone, certainly not his moth-er.

    The White Ninja Lustbader, Eric 1990

  • Impelled by the birds of fortuity fluttering down on her shoul'ders, she took a week's leave and, without a word to her moth-er, boarded the train to Prague.

    The Unbearable Lightness of Being Kundera, Milan, 1929- 1984

  • Looking through the pictures, she stopped for a time at one that showed a family of four standing in a circle: a naked moth-er leaning over her children, her giant tits hanging low like a goat's or cow's, and the husband leaning the same way on the other side, his penis and scrotum looking very much like an udder in miniature.

    The Unbearable Lightness of Being Kundera, Milan, 1929- 1984

  • So high were their principles that they refused to protest in English, and made their case to the Americans on the podium in their moth-er tongue.

    The Unbearable Lightness of Being Kundera, Milan, 1929- 1984

  • "May I not beat them up for you, with the whirl-i-gig beat-er, moth-er, it is so much fun?"

    Pages for Laughing Eyes Unknown

  • "Why, Jam-ie," said his moth-er "The show can't be o-ver yet, it's on-ly four o'clock."

    Pages for Laughing Eyes Unknown

  • The vis-it seemed to do Ruth a great deal of good; for a pink flush came in her cheeks, and she e-ven laughed, which her moth-er said she had not done before for weeks.

    Monkey Jack and Other Stories

  • The hen had gone out for a walk or for a lunch-eon, so An-nie took four of the eggs, put them in-to the crown of her hat, and hast-ened back to give them to her moth-er.

    Pages for Laughing Eyes Unknown

  • Dressed in the warm clothes Frank's moth-er gave him, he looked like quite a dif-fer-ent boy, and was ve-ry grate-ful for her kind-ness.

    Monkey Jack and Other Stories

  • (Illustration) feel such peace and glad-ness Steal-ing o'er me ten-der-ly, hear my saint-ed moth-er, With the loved ones free from care, wait-ing and I'm lis-t'ning For the one that I love best.

    Fifteen Years with the Outcast

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