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Originally Posted by Uncle Robin
I'm currently reading The Big Book of Female Detectives and came across a word that stumped the new dictionary, "muscipular". I was even more surprised to discover that even the REAL Oxford, the OED online, has no entry for the word either! 
" Crawling along like a cat about to commit an act of feline ferocity upon some muscipular abortion" |
From context, I guess it means 'mouse-like' (Mus musculus) or 'fly-like' (Musca domestica). Probably the former. But you're right, even the OED itself has no entry for it; I double-checked with my OED.