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mouseburger

mouseburger noun: a woman of no particular intellect or attractiveness.

Noun

mouseburger (plural mouseburgers)

  1. A woman of no particular intellect or attractiveness.
    • ... mouseburgers — people who are not prepossessing, not pretty, don’t have a particularly high I.Q., a decent education, good family background or other noticeable assets — can come a long way in life if they apply themselves. I am a mouseburger and I have applied.1982, Helen Gurley Brown, Having it All: Love, Success, Sex, Money, Even If You're Starting with Nothing, New York: Simon and Schuster / Linden Press, →ISBN, page 10
    • The female equivalent is quite different: heroines in books and movies more often begin as losers — wallflower, spinster, ugly ducking, bluestocking or mouseburger — and work or will their way to unlikely triumph, be it marriage to Mr. Rochester or the editorship of Cosmopolitan or a seat in the...2009 June 26, Alessandra Stanley, “Gifted and Talented, in a Grown-Up Way”, in New York Times

Forms of mouseburger

pluralmouseburgers

Origin of mouseburger

mouse + -burger; compare earlier nothingburger. Coined by Helen Gurley Brown by 1970.

Questions about mouseburger

What does mouseburger mean?
Mouseburger means a woman of no particular intellect or attractiveness.
What part of speech is mouseburger?
Mouseburger is a noun.
What is the plural of mouseburger?
The plural of mouseburger is mouseburgers.

Words near mouseburger in the dictionary

  1. mouse-warbler
  2. mouse-warblers
  3. mouseable
  4. mousebird
  5. mousebirds
  6. mouseburger
  7. mouseburgers
  8. mouseclick
  9. mouseclicks
  10. moused
  11. moused around

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