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- noun The state or essence of being a
mouse .
Etymologies
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mouse + -hood
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Examples
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Show her a toy-mouse that can run a few yards after being wound up; the form, colour, and action of a mouse being here, there is no good cat which will not conclude that so many of the appearances of mousehood could not be present at the same time without the presence also of the remainder.
Unconscious Memory Samuel Butler 1868
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