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Meaning of mouseburger | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

A woman of no particular intellect or attractiveness.

Examples

“... 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 assetscan come a long way in life if they apply themselves. I am a mouseburger and I have applied.”
The female equivalent is quite different: heroines in books and movies more often begin as loserswallflower, spinster, ugly ducking, bluestocking or mouseburgerand work or will their way to unlikely triumph, be it marriage to Mr. Rochester or the editorship of Cosmopolitan or a seat in the United States Senate.”

CEFR level

C1
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This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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