Mounseer

Quick meaning: Mounseer is a noun meaning Pronunciation spelling of monsieur.

Meaning

Pronunciation spelling of monsieur.

Example Sentences

"A French mounseer do that!

"Wee mounseer," said he, with utter desperation.

Well, as I didn't like to rile the old woman by refusing to do what she wanted, I went to a French mounseer, to teach me my paces; I've been in training above a month, so I thought I'd come here just as a sort of trial to see how I could go the pace."

Rumor first brought to Berlin the tidings of the destruction of the great army on the icy plains of Russia; then its remnants, starving, worn, ragged, appeared in the capital; and the street-boys, who not long before had been forced by the French soldiers to clean their boots, now with little generosity--they were only "street-boys"--shouted sneeringly, "Say, mounseer, want your boots blacked?"

Word Forms

• mounseers

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include monseigneur, mons, mone.

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