Mousse

Definition: Mousse

Mousse

Noun

1. A light creamy dish made from fish or meat and set with gelatin.

2. A light creamy dessert set with gelatin.

3. Toiletry consisting of an aerosol foam used in hair styling.

Verb

1. Apply mousse to; of hair.

Date "mousse" was first used: 1892. (references)

Synonyms: Mousse

Synonyms: hair gel (n), hair mousse (n), gel (v). (additional references)

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Specialty Definition: Mousse

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Mousse is a dessert made from egg, sugar, and cream, usually with other flavors such as chocolate or fruit. The ingredients are beaten separately and then mixed together carefully to produce a light and fluffy yet extremely rich confection.

See Chocolate Mousse

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Mousse."

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Crosswords: Mousse

English words defined with "mousse": chicken mousse, chocolate mousse ♦ fish mousse ♦ gel. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Mousse" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (foam, froth, frothiness, head, lather, moss, mousse, scum, spume), Italian (mousse, whip), Portuguese (mousse), Swedish (mousse, whip).

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Modern Usage: Mousse

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Over there, Croissant, Souffle, Escargot, and Chocolate Mousse. (Top Secret!; writing credit: Jim Abrahams; David Zucker)
Movie/TV Titles	Cat & Mousse (1987)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Mousse

Domain	Title
References	The 2003-2008 World Outlook for Chilled Mousse Desserts (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	François, gabier de misaine, ou, La vie d'un mousse sur un "trois-mâts barque" (reference) L'âme du mousse : roman (reference) Le mousse : ou, Conduite d'une croisière côtière (reference) Les vies d'Alexandre Jacob, 1879-1954 : mousse, voleur, anarchiste, bagnard (reference) The Moose Is in the Mousse (Homophones. Level 1) (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Mousse

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Usage Frequency: Mousse

"Mousse" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.53% of the time. "Mousse" is used about 202 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	96.53%	195	21,939
Noun (common)	1.98%	4	175,879
Noun (proper)	1.49%	3	202,518
Total	100.00%	202	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Mousse

Expressions using "mousse": chicken mousse ♦ chocolate mousse ♦ fish mousse ♦ hair mousse. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "mousse": mousse-like, mousse-pink.
	Ending with "mousse": chocolate-mousse.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Mousse

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	Expression	Frequency per Day
chocolate mousse	157	mousse t	11
chocolate mousse recipe	109	chocolate mousse recipe white	10
mousse	83	mousse recipe salmon	8
chocolate mousse cake	46	de maracuja mousse	7
mousse veet	29	de morango mousse	7
mousse recipe	29	mousse raspberry	7
strawberry mousse	23	can mousse muffler	7
mango mousse	20	cake mousse recipe	6
salmon mousse	18	lemon mousse	6
mousse cake	18	mousse raspberry recipe	6
cake chocolate mousse recipe	17	chocolate mousse cheesecake	6
white chocolate mousse	17	carb chocolate low mousse	6
chocolate mousse pie	15	caoutchouc mousse	6
mousse recipe strawberry	15	cake mousse strawberry	6
mousse au chocolate	15	chocolat.net mousse	6
hair mousse	15	mango mousse recipe	6
blanc chocolate mousse recette	14	caoutchouc mousse vente	6
mousse de chocolate	13	caoutchouc fournitures mousse	6
au chocolate lait mousse recette	11	cake chocolate mousse white	6
chocolate mousse noir recette	11	easy chocolate mousse	5
		lemon mousse recipe	5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Mousse

Language		Translations for "mousse"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		mus. (various references)

Arabic		‏قشدة مخفوقة, ‏الموسية حلوى من القشدة. (various references)

Bulgarian		мус. (various references)

Chinese		奶油�"�点. (various references)

Danish		postej. (various references)

Dutch		leverpastei. (various references)

French		mousse (moss). (various references)

German		Mäuse (mice). (various references)

Greek		μουσ, αφρόκρεμα (cream, elite, the pick of), αφρός (foam, froth, spray). (various references)

Hebrew		מוס, קציפ�" (cream, custard, fluff, whipped cream), קצפת (fluff, whipped cream). (various references)

Hungarian		hajformáló hab. (various references)

Italian		mousse (whip). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		ミンク鯨 (minced beef, mince-meat, mince-pie, minke whale, mint, mint julep, mood, mood conditioning, moody, Moore, moose, mouton, mucho, Muse, peppermint, piked whale). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		� ース (moose). (various references)

Pig Latin		oussemay

Portuguese		musse, mousse. (various references)

Russian		мусс. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		mus, pena (foam, lather, ream, scum, skim, spume, suds). (various references)

Spanish		crema batida (whipped cream), crema (cream, custard). (various references)

Swedish		mousse (whip). (various references)

Turkish		saç köpüğü, köpük (feather, foam, froth, head, lather, scum, skimmings, spume, suds, yeast), çırpılmış tatlı krema. (various references)

Ukrainian		мус. (various references)

Vietnamese		món kem mút. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Mousse

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	mulsum. (various references)
Late Latin	300-700	mulsa. (various references)
Old French	900-1400	mousse. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Mousse

Derivations
	Words beginning with "mousse": moussed, mousseline, mousselines, mousses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Mousse" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aoussou, Boussa, masusee, mauss, misse, Moazzam, mooses, Moruzzi, mossa, mosse, Moulsey, mous, Mousavi, Mousawi, mouses, mousie, mouske, mousme, mousr, Moussant, Moussawi, mousseaux, moussed, Moussel, mousser, moussette, mousseux, Moussey, moussir, Moussy, mowse, moyse, Moyses, Mussa, musse, Nouste, pousse, smouse, Youssou. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Mousse"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "mousse" (pronounced muw"s)
3	m uw" s	moose.
2	-uw" s	abstruse, abuse, caboose, coos, deduce, Deuce, diffuse, disabuse, disuse, Duce, excuse, goose, induce, introduce, juice, loose, Luce, misuse, noose, obtuse, overproduce, produce, profuse, recluse, reduce, reintroduce, reproduce, reuse, seduce, sluice, Spruce, truce, use.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Mousse

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: mouses.
	Words within the letters "e-m-o-s-s-u"
	-1 letter: meous, moues, mouse, muses, souse, sumos.
	-2 letters: emus, meou, mess, moss, moue, muse, muss, oses, some, sous, sues, sumo, sums, uses.
	-3 letters: ems, emu, ess, mos, mus, oes, oms, ose, som, sos, sou, sue, sum, use.
	-4 letters: em, es, me, mo, mu, oe, om, os, so, um, us.
	Words containing the letters "e-m-o-s-s-u"
	+1 letter: momuses, mosques, mousers, moussed, mousses.
	+2 letters: coassume, consumes, costumes, gummoses, gumshoes, koumises, koumyses, mousiest, oestrums, spermous, spumones, squamose, strumose, supremos.
	+3 letters: albumoses, almshouse, amauroses, autosomes, buxomness, coassumed, coassumes, coliseums, colosseum, consumers, costumers, customers, customise, emulsions, emulsoids, foursomes, homespuns, humorless, koumisses, koumysses, madhouses, medusoids, mesopause, misquotes, misroutes, moistures, moresques, mousiness, mudstones, mungooses, omnibuses, outshames, outsmiles, outsmokes, responsum, resummons, rhombuses, seamounts, sensorium, smoulders, summoners, summonsed, summonses, supermoms, vomituses.
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