mousery

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noun

A place where mice are kept and bred.

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Meanings

nounmousery (plural mouseries)

plural mouseries

  1. rareA place where mice are kept and bred.

    There was indeed a mousery of vast proportions, far from general view on an upper floor. . . . A member of the Institute's research staff, unaware of its existence and unexpectedly admitted, found himself in a city of mice, thousands of them, elaborately housed and cared for.

    1965, George Washington Corner, A History of the Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Univ. Press, p. 228 (Google preview)

Origin

From mouse + -ery.

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APA

mousery. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mousery

MLA

“mousery.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mousery. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “mousery,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mousery.

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