mousy
or mous·ey
Origin of mousy
1Other words for mousy
Other words from mousy
- mous·i·ly, adverb
- mous·i·ness, noun
Words Nearby mousy
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How to use mousy in a sentence
One would be telling stories, some were mousy and quiet, one would be holding on to the big aluminum olla of spaghetti.
Been dying to see that powerful sexual masochist woo and whip that mousy college student?
The ‘50 Shades of Grey’ Trailer Is Pretty Ridiculous, Right? | Kevin Fallon | July 24, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTGaga played a mousy employee at the Apple Genius bar, who West trick into appearing on the show as a guest.
Lady Gaga Disappoints on ‘Saturday Night Live’ (But She Tried Hard) | Kevin Fallon | November 17, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTHe will work with as much zeal to snare a mousy girl as to seduce a beauty queen.
Helen Gurley Brown: 10 Best Tips From ‘Sex and the Single Girl’ | Lizzie Crocker | August 14, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTShe wore a green blazer, round glasses and her mousy brown hair in a mousse-less blob.
She was a good-looking woman of no particularly identifiable age, who'd taken care to make herself mousy.
They were kept on plates on sideboards in the sun, or thrust into mousy cupboards.
Notwithstanding | Mary CholmondeleyBaby dear, only look at it wid him pitty, pitty eyes, and him tongue out of his mousy!
Lorna Doone | R. D. BlackmoreBut after a little the small mousy one's curiosity overcame her diffidence.
The Title Market | Emily PostAfter a bit we could make out the doctor's short-tailed, mousy mare and him powdering along at a sort of hand gallop.
Robbery Under Arms | Thomas Alexander Browne, AKA Rolf BoldrewoodAnd those puny, little, mousy women stare and talk about me, because theah's a little meat on mah cahcass.
Thy Rocks and Rills | Robert Ernest Gilbert
British Dictionary definitions for mousy
mousey
/ (ˈmaʊsɪ) /
resembling a mouse, esp in having a light brown or greyish hair colour
shy or ineffectual: a mousy little woman
infested with mice
Derived forms of mousy
- mousily, adverb
- mousiness, noun
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