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Definition: Church Mouse |
Church MouseNoun1. A fictional mouse created by Lewis Carroll. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Desire | Adjective: desirous; desiring; Verb: inclined; (willing); partial to; fain, wishful, optative; anxious, wistful, curious; at a loss for, sedulous, solicitous. craving, hungry, sharp-set, peckish, ravening, with an empty stomach, esurient, lickerish, thirsty, athirst, parched with thirst, pinched with hunger, famished, dry, drouthy; hungry as a hunter, hungry as a hawk, hungry as a horse, hungry as a church mouse, hungry as a bear. |
Poverty | Adjective: poor, indigent; poverty-stricken; badly off, poorly off, ill off; poor as a rat, poor as a church mouse, poor as a Job; fortuneless, dowerless, moneyless, penniless; unportioned, unmoneyed; impecunious; out of money, out of cash, short of money, short of cash; without a rap, not worth a rap;(money); qui n'a pas le sou, out of pocket, hard up; out at elbows, out at heels; seedy, bare-footed; beggarly, beggared; destitute; fleeced, stripped; bereft, bereaved; reduced; homeless. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Church Mouse |
| Specialty definitions using "church mouse": Dominie Sampson ♦ Meat, Bread. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | The Church Mouse (1934) | |
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Expressions using "church mouse": be as poor as a church mouse ♦ hungry as a church mouse ♦ poor as a church mouse. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
church mouse | 10 |
christopher church mouse | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "church mouse"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Romanian | sãrac lipit pãmântului (poor as a church mouse). (various references) | |
Spanish | ser más pobre que las ratas (be as poor as a church mouse). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-e-h-h-m-o-r-s-u-u" | |
-3 letters: churches, couchers, crouches. | |
-4 letters: chouser, chromes, coucher, couches, curches, humerus, humours, mouches, rouches, succour. | |
-5 letters: cercus, cerous, chemos, chores, chorus, chouse, choush, chrome, church, comers, cosher, course, crocus, crouch, crouse, cruces, heuchs, homers, houser, humors, humour, mohurs, mosher, mouser, muches, mucors, mucose, mucous, mucros, musher, occurs, ochers, ochres, ouches, rheums, rouche, ruches, schmoe. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 68 75 72 63 68 4D 6F 75 73 65 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01101000 01110101 01110010 01100011 01101000 00100000 01001101 01101111 01110101 01110011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C h u r c h   M o u s e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0068 0075 0072 0063 0068 004D 006F 0075 0073 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)37748784697424781878571 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Romanian | dicţionar, definiţie, determinare, definire, translaţie, traducere, tãlmãcire | român, rumano |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | spaniol, spaniolesc, spanioleşte, español |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | englezesc, inglés |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Expressions 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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