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- Middle English · inherited frommouse-trappe
- English todaymousetrap
From Middle English mouse-trappe, mous trappe, mouse trape, equivalent to mouse + trap. Cognate with Dutch muizetrap, muizentrap (“mousetrap”), German Low German Muustrappe, Muustrapp (“mousetrap”). In the Internet sense, refers to a computer mouse.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.