church mouse

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   a fictional mouse created by Lewis Carroll

   Broaderfictional animal

Questions about church mouse

What does church mouse mean?

church mouse means "a fictional mouse created by Lewis Carroll".

Is church mouse a common word?

church mouse is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.