English edit

Etymology edit

Coined by Helen Gurley Brown.

Noun edit

mouseburger (plural mouseburgers)

  1. A woman of no particular intellect or attractiveness.
    • 2009 June 26, Alessandra Stanley, “Gifted and Talented, in a Grown-Up Way”, in New York Times[1]:
      The female equivalent is quite different: heroines in books and movies more often begin as losers — wallflower, spinster, ugly ducking, bluestocking or mouseburger — and work or will their way to unlikely triumph, be it marriage to Mr. Rochester or the editorship of Cosmopolitan or a seat in the United States Senate.