Meanings
plural country mice
- slangAntarcticaA member of support personnel who travels around, rather than remaining at the base.
"[…] 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—"
2023, J. Scott Coatsworth, Love & LimitationsAntonyms: city mouse
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA countryperson; someone with country ways.
nounA member of support personnel who travels around, rather than remaining at the base.
Origin
An allusion to The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse, one of Aesop's Fables.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
country mouse. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/country%20mouse
“country mouse.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/country%20mouse. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “country mouse,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/country%20mouse.
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