Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

city mouse

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.29 in modern English

Syllables: city -mouse
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A city person; someone who has city ways.

noun

A member of support personnel who remains at the base.

Slang

Example Sentences

"[…] before arriving, he'd never thought it would be spent as one of the city mice. Most of the McMurdoans never ranged more than walking distance from the largest town on the entire continent."
""[…] Maybe we'll run into some country mice." "Country mice?" "Some of the Mac-Town folks, out here on the ice. City mice stay at McMurdo, and country mice—""

Etymology

An allusion to The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse, one of Aesop's Fables.

Usage

Slang

Inflected Forms

city mice (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

country mouse

Questions

What does city mouse mean?: A city person; someone who has city ways.
Where does city mouse come from?: An allusion to The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse, one of Aesop's Fables.

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