Noun: flying mouse
| Singular | flying mouse |
| Plural | flying mice |
Sample Sentences
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The system I quoted […] was a full system: 486 PC 8megRAM 140HD, 2 DVI boards, 1 Ascension Bird flying mouse (6D mouse with 3 buttons, used for navigation and interaction), 1 VirtualResearch Headmounted display, 1 Logitech Sonic 6D tracker for headmount, Sense8 software and environment. [1992, Maurice Sharp, “INDUSTRY: VPL's MicroCosm - Clarification from VPL”, in sci.virtual-worlds (Usenet):]
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My hope is that the system would be as friendly as possible. So, i like ^([sic]) to know how to start looking into possible I/O devices. i.e. flying mouse, voice activated programs, video capture card?... [1993, [email protected], “Help! PC System Configuration”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware (Usenet):]
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Oh, and those wacky nonstandard mice — including the infamous 3D flying mouse — they need their own software to do their tricks. [2008, Dan Gookin, Troubleshooting Your PC For Dummies, page 165:]
Nouns inflected like flying mouse
painted bristly mouse,
rock mouse,
creepmouse,
dust mouse,
reermouse,
bark louse,
greater big-footed mouse,
hopping mouse,
leaf louse,
Mitchell's hopping mouse,
chicken louse,
chewing louse,
mermouse,
flying mouse,
shrewmouse,
yellow-necked field mouse,
desert mouse,
flickermouse,
fish louse,
clit mouse, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Compare Russian лету́чая мышь (letúčaja myšʹ, “flying mouse”).