mouche
See also: mouché
English
Etymology
French mouche. Doublet of Musca.
Noun
mouche (plural mouches)
- A soul patch, especially in a historical (pre-modern) context.
- 1908, Everybody's Magazine, page 252:
- They lent him a worn aspect which not even a fiercely erect little mustache and a tiny mouche beneath the lower lip could counteract.
- 1921, Elizabeth Douglas Van Buren, Figurative terra-cotta revetments in etruria and Latium: in the VI. and V. centuries B.C., page 9:
- The hair and beard are represented by a plastic mass : the mouche under the lower lip radiates outward and the moustache consists of two separate strands ending in spirals.
- 2006, Linda M. Scott, Fresh Lipstick: Redressing Fashion and Feminism, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 203:
- In the colonial period, the taste for red lips and cheeks came and went, as did fashions for mouches and wigs.
- 2014, Jack B. Rochester, Madrone, Wheatmark, Inc., →ISBN:
- LA is very thin, wears a thin mustache and a tiny beatnik mouche under his lower lip. His brown hair is shoulder length. Mike is surfer-blond, like Ricky in Germany; his hair is shorter, accentuating his somewhat pudgy countenance.
- 1908, Everybody's Magazine, page 252:
- Small stickers or patches affixed to the face as a beauty mark.
French
Etymology
From Middle French mousche, from Old French mousche, musche, from Latin musca, from a Proto-Indo-European root *mus-, *mu-, *mew-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /muʃ/
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Noun
mouche f (plural mouches)
- fly (insect)
- bullseye (center of a target)
- (historical) (espionage) a spy employed by the ancien régime to seek out subversive ideas
- (Louisiana) bee
- Synonym: mouche à miel
- soul patch, mouche (narrow beard descending from lower lip)
Derived terms
- amanite tue-mouches
- écraser une mouche avec un marteau
- enculer les mouches
- enculeur de mouches
- enculeuse de mouches
- faire mouche
- gobe-mouche
- mouche à feu
- mouche à merde
- mouche à miel
- mouche de feu
- mouche de vinaigre
- mouche du coche
- mouche du vinaigre
- mouche luisante
- ne pas faire de mal à une mouche
- oiseau-mouche
- on n'attrape pas des mouches avec du vinaigre
- papier à mouches
- papier colle-mouches
- papier tue-mouches
- pattes de mouche
- pêche à la mouche
- pied de mouche
- prendre la mouche
- tapette à mouches
- tuer une mouche avec un canon
Related terms
- mouchard
- moucheron
- moucheter
Descendants
- → English: mouche
- → Portuguese: muche
- → Swedish: musch
- → Turkish: muş
Verb
mouche
- inflection of moucher:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
References
- “mouche”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Further reading
- “mouche”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Portuguese
Noun
mouche f (plural mouches)
- Alternative spelling of muche
Swedish
Noun
mouche c
- Alternative spelling of musch.