mousingly
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adverb
[edit]mousingly
- (archaic) In a prying or meddlesome manner.
- 1881, Allyn E. Wolcott, "That's the Talk" for American Freemen, page 183:
- Those who mousingly, or audaciously seek for places of public trust and power, are never worthy of them.
- 1908, Mary Stewart Cutting Jr, The Wayfarers, page 147:
- […] being intent mousingly on getting every last little cheesy crumb of detail, and peacefully unaware of deep, rich stores concealed in her own family.