mouseburger

plural mouseburgers

1. A woman of no particular intellect or attractiveness.

   ... mouseburgers — people who are not prepossessing, not pretty, don’t have a particularly high I.Q., a decent education, good family background or other noticeable assets — can come a long way in life if they apply themselves. I am a mouseburger and I have applied.

   1982, Helen Gurley Brown, Having it All: Love, Success, Sex, Money, Even If You're Starting with Nothing, New York: Simon and Schuster / Linden Press, →ISBN, page 10

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   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.

   2009 June 26, Alessandra Stanley, “Gifted and Talented, in a Grown-Up Way”, in New York Times