mouseburger
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Coined by Helen Gurley Brown.
Noun
[edit]mouseburger (plural mouseburgers)
- A woman of no particular intellect or attractiveness.
- 2009 June 26, Alessandra Stanley, “Gifted and Talented, in a Grown-Up Way”, in New York Times[1]:
- The female equivalent is quite different: heroines in books and movies more often begin as losers — wallflower, spinster, ugly ducking, bluestocking or mouseburger — and 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.