mumsy
drab or dowdy; unfashionable: a mumsy overcoat.
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How to use mumsy in a sentence
The poor little mumsy had been shut up on shipboard for months and surely she deserved some recreation.
The Carter Girls' Week-End Camp | Nell SpeedYour mumsy is writing you a long letter, too, so I must stop.
Molly Brown of Kentucky | Nell SpeedI don't allow any one to talk in a confidential way to my mumsy-pums except myself.
A Modern Tomboy | L. T. MeadeDouglas and I are so miserable about it, but we—we—somehow we feel that we are a great deal older than mumsy.
The Carter Girls' Week-End Camp | Nell SpeedBut, mumsy,” soothed Nan, “we are going to make you very comfortable and we will find a pretty house and maybe it will be brick.
The Carter Girls' Week-End Camp | Nell Speed
British Dictionary definitions for mumsy
/ (ˈmʌmzɪ) /
out of fashion; homely or drab
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