mousy

or mous·ey

[ mou-see, -zee ]
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adjective,mous·i·er, mous·i·est.
  1. resembling or suggesting a mouse, as in color or odor.

  2. drab and colorless.

  1. meek; timid: A drill sergeant can't be mousy!

  2. quiet; noiseless: a mousy tread.

  3. infested with mice.

Origin of mousy

1
First recorded in 1805–15; mouse + -y1

Other 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

  • She was a good-looking woman of no particularly identifiable age, who'd taken care to make herself mousy.

    Danger Stalks Lucas Davenport | Daily Beast Promotions | May 11, 2009 | THE DAILY BEAST
  • They were kept on plates on sideboards in the sun, or thrust into mousy cupboards.

    Notwithstanding | Mary Cholmondeley
  • Baby dear, only look at it wid him pitty, pitty eyes, and him tongue out of his mousy!

    Lorna Doone | R. D. Blackmore
  • But after a little the small mousy one's curiosity overcame her diffidence.

    The Title Market | Emily Post
  • After 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 Boldrewood
  • And 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

mousy

mousey

/ (ˈmaʊsɪ) /


adjectivemousier or mousiest
  1. resembling a mouse, esp in having a light brown or greyish hair colour

  2. shy or ineffectual: a mousy little woman

  1. infested with mice

Derived forms of mousy

  • mousily, adverb
  • mousiness, noun

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