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mumsy
[ muhm-zee ]
adjective
- drab or dowdy; unfashionable:
a mumsy overcoat.
mumsy
/ ˈmʌmzɪ /
adjective
- out of fashion; homely or drab
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Word History and Origins
Origin of mumsy1
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Example Sentences
The poor little mumsy had been shut up on shipboard for months and surely she deserved some recreation.
Your mumsy is writing you a long letter, too, so I must stop.
I don't allow any one to talk in a confidential way to my Mumsy-pums except myself.
Douglas and I are so miserable about it, but we—we—somehow we feel that we are a great deal older than mumsy.
But, mumsy,” soothed Nan, “we are going to make you very comfortable and we will find a pretty house and maybe it will be brick.
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