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mousery

mousery noun: a place where mice are kept and bred.

Noun

mousery (plural mouseries)

  1. (rare) A place where mice are kept and bred.
    • There was indeed a mousery of vast proportions, far from general view on an upper floor. . . . A member of the Institute's research staff, unaware of its existence and unexpectedly admitted, found himself in a city of mice, thousands of them, elaborately housed and cared for.1965, George Washington Corner, A History of the Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Univ. Press, p. 228 (Google preview)

Forms of mousery

pluralmouseries

Origin of mousery

From mouse + -ery.

Questions about mousery

What does mousery mean?
Mousery means a place where mice are kept and bred.
What part of speech is mousery?
Mousery is a noun.
What is the plural of mousery?
The plural of mousery is mouseries.

Words near mousery in the dictionary

  1. mouseprint
  2. mouseproof
  3. mouser
  4. mouseries
  5. mousers
  6. mousery
  7. mouses
  8. mouses around
  9. mouses over
  10. mousesicle
  11. mousesicles

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