amuser
English
Etymology
From amuse + -erCategory:English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun)#AMUSER.
Noun
amuser (plural amusers)Category:English lemmas#AMUSERCategory:English nouns#AMUSERCategory:English countable nouns#AMUSERCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#AMUSERCategory:Pages with entries#AMUSERCategory:Pages with 3 entries#AMUSER
- Someone who amuses.
- (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#AMUSER) One who diverts attention, usually to distract or bewilder, often for fraudulent purposes; hence a cheat, deceiver or thief.
- (historicalCategory:English terms with historical senses#AMUSER, early 19th century) One of a class of rogues who carry snuff or dust in their pockets, which they throw into the eyes of people so as to enable their accomplices to rob them while pretending to help them.
- 1993, Stella Cameron, Only by Your Touch, HarperCollins, page 88:
- He should have knowed better than to tangle with you, Miss Lindsay. Where did you learn to be an amuser, then?Category:English terms with quotations#AMUSER
- 2002, various authors, Gangs of New York (film), Miramax Films, Entertainment Film Distributors:
- BOSS TWEED — No one important, necessarily. Average men will do. Back alley amusers with no affiliations.
- 2013, Michelle Lovric, The Remedy, Bloomsbury, page 59:
- Valentine watches the bunch of amusers close around the politician, the leader already dipping into his pocket for the snuff to fling into the eyes of their victim.Category:English terms with quotations#AMUSER
Translations
Anagrams
Category:en:People#AMUSERFrench
Etymology
Inherited from Middle FrenchCategory:French terms inherited from Middle French#AMUSERCategory:French terms derived from Middle French#AMUSER amuser (“to amuse, divert, babble”), from Old FrenchCategory:French terms inherited from Old French#AMUSERCategory:French terms derived from Old French#AMUSER amuser (“to stupefy, waste time, be lost in thought”), from a- + muser (“to stare stupidly at, gape, wander, waste time, loiter, think carefully about, attend to”), of uncertain and obscure origin. Cognate with Occitan musa (“idle waiting”), Italian musare (“to gape idly about”). Possibly from Old French *mus (“snout”) from Vulgar LatinCategory:French terms inherited from Vulgar Latin#AMUSERCategory:French terms derived from Vulgar Latin#AMUSER *mūsa (“snout”) (compare Medieval Latin mūsum (“muzzle, snout”)), from Proto-GermanicCategory:French terms derived from Proto-Germanic#AMUSER *mū- (“muzzle, snout”), from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:French terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#AMUSER *mū- (“lips, muzzle”). Compare German Maul (“muzzle, snout”).
An alternative etymology connects Old French muser and Occitan musa with Old High GermanCategory:French terms derived from Old High German#AMUSER muoza (“careful attention, leisure, idleness”), from Proto-GermanicCategory:French terms derived from Proto-Germanic#AMUSER *mōtǭ (“leave, permission”), from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:French terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#AMUSER *med- (“to acquire, possess, control”). Compare also Old High German muozōn (“to be idle, have leisure or opportunity”), German Muße (“leisure”). More at empty.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.my.ze/Category:French 3-syllable words#AMUSERCategory:French terms with IPA pronunciation#AMUSER
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Verb
amuserCategory:French lemmas#AMUSERCategory:French verbs#AMUSERCategory:French entries with incorrect language header#AMUSERCategory:Pages with entries#AMUSERCategory:Pages with 3 entries#AMUSER
- (transitiveCategory:French transitive verbs#AMUSER) to amuse, to entertain
- (reflexiveCategory:French reflexive verbs#AMUSER, s'amuser) to have fun, to enjoy oneself
Conjugation
| infinitive | simple | amuser | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | amusant /a.my.zɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | amusé /a.my.ze/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | amuse /a.myz/ |
amuses /a.myz/ |
amuse /a.myz/ |
amusons /a.my.zɔ̃/ |
amusez /a.my.ze/ |
amusent /a.myz/ |
| imperfect | amusais /a.my.zɛ/ |
amusais /a.my.zɛ/ |
amusait /a.my.zɛ/ |
amusions /a.my.zjɔ̃/ |
amusiez /a.my.zje/ |
amusaient /a.my.zɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | amusai /a.my.ze/ |
amusas /a.my.za/ |
amusa /a.my.za/ |
amusâmes /a.my.zam/ |
amusâtes /a.my.zat/ |
amusèrent /a.my.zɛʁ/ | |
| future | amuserai /a.myz.ʁe/ |
amuseras /a.myz.ʁa/ |
amusera /a.myz.ʁa/ |
amuserons /a.myz.ʁɔ̃/ |
amuserez /a.myz.ʁe/ |
amuseront /a.myz.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | amuserais /a.myz.ʁɛ/ |
amuserais /a.myz.ʁɛ/ |
amuserait /a.myz.ʁɛ/ |
amuserions /a.my.zə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
amuseriez /a.my.zə.ʁje/ |
amuseraient /a.myz.ʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | amuse /a.myz/ |
amuses /a.myz/ |
amuse /a.myz/ |
amusions /a.my.zjɔ̃/ |
amusiez /a.my.zje/ |
amusent /a.myz/ |
| imperfect2 | amusasse /a.my.zas/ |
amusasses /a.my.zas/ |
amusât /a.my.za/ |
amusassions /a.my.za.sjɔ̃/ |
amusassiez /a.my.za.sje/ |
amusassent /a.my.zas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | amuse /a.myz/ |
— | amusons /a.my.zɔ̃/ |
amusez /a.my.ze/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
| infinitive | simple | s'amuser | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | s'être + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | s'amusant /sa.my.zɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant or étant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | amusé /a.my.ze/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | m'amuse /ma.myz/ |
t'amuses /ta.myz/ |
s'amuse /sa.myz/ |
nous amusons /nu.z‿a.my.zɔ̃/ |
vous amusez /vu.z‿a.my.ze/ |
s'amusent /sa.myz/ |
| imperfect | m'amusais /ma.my.zɛ/ |
t'amusais /ta.my.zɛ/ |
s'amusait /sa.my.zɛ/ |
nous amusions /nu.z‿a.my.zjɔ̃/ |
vous amusiez /vu.z‿a.my.zje/ |
s'amusaient /sa.my.zɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | m'amusai /ma.my.ze/ |
t'amusas /ta.my.za/ |
s'amusa /sa.my.za/ |
nous amusâmes /nu.z‿a.my.zam/ |
vous amusâtes /vu.z‿a.my.zat/ |
s'amusèrent /sa.my.zɛʁ/ | |
| future | m'amuserai /ma.myz.ʁe/ |
t'amuseras /ta.myz.ʁa/ |
s'amusera /sa.myz.ʁa/ |
nous amuserons /nu.z‿a.myz.ʁɔ̃/ |
vous amuserez /vu.z‿a.myz.ʁe/ |
s'amuseront /sa.myz.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | m'amuserais /ma.myz.ʁɛ/ |
t'amuserais /ta.myz.ʁɛ/ |
s'amuserait /sa.myz.ʁɛ/ |
nous amuserions /nu.z‿a.my.zə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
vous amuseriez /vu.z‿a.my.zə.ʁje/ |
s'amuseraient /sa.myz.ʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of s'être + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of s'être + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of s'être + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of s'être + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of s'être + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | m'amuse /ma.myz/ |
t'amuses /ta.myz/ |
s'amuse /sa.myz/ |
nous amusions /nu.z‿a.my.zjɔ̃/ |
vous amusiez /vu.z‿a.my.zje/ |
s'amusent /sa.myz/ |
| imperfect2 | m'amusasse /ma.my.zas/ |
t'amusasses /ta.my.zas/ |
s'amusât /sa.my.za/ |
nous amusassions /nu.z‿a.my.za.sjɔ̃/ |
vous amusassiez /vu.z‿a.my.za.sje/ |
s'amusassent /sa.my.zas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of s'être + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of s'être + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | amuse-toi /a.myz.twa/ |
— | amusons-nous /a.my.zɔ̃.nu/ |
amusez-vous /a.my.ze.vu/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of s'être + past participle | — | simple imperative of s'être + past participle | simple imperative of s'être + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
- “amuser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Anagrams
Norman
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old FrenchCategory:Norman terms inherited from Old French#AMUSERCategory:Norman terms derived from Old French#AMUSER amuser (“to stupefy, waste time, be lost in thought”), from a- + muser (“to stare stupidly at, gape, wander, waste time, loiter, think carefully about, attend to”), of uncertain and obscure origin.
Verb
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