Feminine
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Maus

Sentences
Meaning

  1. (feminine) mouse (animal)
  2. (feminine) mouse (input device)
  3. (colloquial, endearing, feminine) sweetheart, babe (likable or attractive person, especially a girl or woman)
  4. (broadly, colloquial, endearing, feminine) sweetheart, babe (likable or attractive person, especially a girl or woman)
  5. (colloquial, feminine, vulgar) fanny, minnie, cunt (vulva or vagina)

Concepts

soapsuds

dark grey

apodemus

computer mouse

dark gray

mouse mice

Frequency

B2
Dialects

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

muus

Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Pronounced as (IPA)
/maʊ̯s/
Etymology

In summary

From Middle High German mūs, from Old High German mūs, from Proto-Germanic *mūs. Doublet of Mouse. The computing sense is a semantic loan from English mouse.

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