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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 Carrollplay

  Familiarity information: CHURCH MOUSE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CHURCH MOUSE (noun)


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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