mumsy

[ muhm-zee ]
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adjective
  1. drab or dowdy; unfashionable: a mumsy overcoat.

Origin of mumsy

1
mum4 + -sy; def. 1 was first recorded in 1875–80; def. 2 was first recorded in 1960–65.

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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.

  • 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.

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  • 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.

British Dictionary definitions for mumsy

mumsy

/ (ˈmʌmzɪ) /


adjective-sier or -siest
  1. out of fashion; homely or drab

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