Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A little or young mouse.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A little mouse.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A little
mouse . - noun A baby
mouse .
Etymologies
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mouse + -kin
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Examples
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I know that you are playing with me just as a cat plays with a mouse; yet even the most piteous mousekin sometimes causes his tormentor surprise or disappointment by getting under a bureau or behind the stove, where, for the moment, she cannot paw him.
Mince Pie Christopher Morley 1923
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"Frisk about, pretty little mousekin," says grey Grimalkin, purring in the corner, and keeping watch with her green eyes.
The Virginians William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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