Mickey Mouse Definition
adjective
Unimportant; trivial.
American Heritage
Intellectually unchallenging; simple.
His Mickey Mouse assignments soon bored the students.
American Heritage
noun
Oversimplified, shallow, insignificant, etc.
A Mickey Mouse college course.
Webster's New World
pronoun
The most famous Disney character, an anthropomorphic mouse.
Wiktionary
Origin of Mickey Mouse
-
The adjective sense developed during the Second World War, after a large quantity of low quality counterfeit Mickey Mouse watches flooded the UK.
From Wiktionary
After the cartoon character Mickey Mouse , created by Walt Disney
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Mickey Mouse Is Also Mentioned In
Find Similar Words
Find similar words to Mickey Mouse using the buttons below.