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CHURCH MOUSE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does church mouse mean?
• CHURCH MOUSE (noun)
The noun CHURCH MOUSE has 1 sense:
1. a fictional mouse created by Lewis Carroll
Familiarity information: CHURCH MOUSE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A fictional mouse created by Lewis Carroll
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Instance hypernyms:
fictional animal (animals that exist only in fiction (usually in children's stories))
Context examples
Mrs. K. told me he was from Berlin, very learned and good, but poor as a church mouse, and gives lessons to support himself and two little orphan nephews whom he is educating here, according to the wishes of his sister, who married an American.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
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