mousyn.

Brit.

/ˈmaʊsi/, U.S.

/ˈmaʊsi/

Forms: 1600s– mousie, 1700s– mousey, 1800s mousy.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mouse n., -y suffix⁶.

Etymology: < mouse n. + -y suffix⁶.

colloquial.

A mouse. Also as a pet name and as a term of endearment for a child or a woman.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > superfamily Myomorpha (mouse, rat, vole, or hamster) > [noun] > family Muridae > genus Mus or mouse

mouseeOE

mousy1692

murine1879

1692 ‘J. Curate’ Sc. Presbyterian Eloquence iv. 113 Thou'rt like a Mousie peeping out at the hole of a Wall.

1764 K. O'Hara Midas i. 21 Pussey Can counterfeit sleeping, When mousey Steals tip-a-toe creeping.

1786 R. Burns To Mouse vii, in Poems 140 But Mousie, thou art no thy-lane, In proving foresight may be vain.

1845 Zoologist 3 1030 On my return [I] found poor mousy in convulsions.

1883 W. C. Smith North Country Folk 30 She always got some pretty name as I took her upstairs to her bed, As Mousie, or Birdie, or Daisy, or anything dainty or sweet.

1921 H. Williamson Beautiful Years 43 What's the good of life, eh, mousie? You've been made a perfect little body, yet no one cares if you'm be killed or not—you'm eat t'corn and t'peas, and others eat you.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 450 Has little mousey any tickles tonight?

1989 Sunday Sun (Brisbane) 17 Dec. 65 (cartoon caption) Oh! I see that you've found my rubber mousey.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

mousyadj.

Brit.

/ˈmaʊsi/, U.S.

/ˈmaʊsi/

Forms: 1800s– mousey, 1800s– mousy.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mouse n., -y suffix¹.

Etymology: < mouse n. + -y suffix¹.

1. Of a person, a person's behaviour, etc.: suggestive of a mouse; shy, quiet, timid, ineffectual.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > humility > modesty > [adjective]

simplec1300

measurablec1330

methec1390

murec1390

smallc1405

soleinc1450

timorous1474

modest1561

unbragging1570

unboldened1591

unpresuming1607

bragless1609

unambitious1621

boastless1632

unpompous1656

verecundous1656

sober1659

tender-foreheaded1659

unpragmatical1673

unpretending1681

unpresumptuous1704

unimportant1727

unaspiringa1729

inambitious1729

unassuming1730

unostentatiousa1739

unboastful1744

pretensionless1748

unarrogating1748

uncontending1748

unopinionated1775

unboasting1802

underbearing1802

mousy1812

un-ultra1817

unarrogant1831

low-flying1835

unconceited1838

unpretentious1838

uninflated1861

unvain1863

unbumptious1865

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > inaudibility > [adjective] > silent

coyc1330

stone-still1338

quietc1384

softa1393

peacec1400

swownc1400

tongueless1447

clumc1485

mutec1500

whist1513

silent1542

dead1548

husht1557

whisted1557

whust1558

whisht1570

huisht1576

quiet (also mum, mute, still, etc.) as a mouse (in a cheese)1584

fordead1593

noiseless1608

whisha1612

dumba1616

soundlessa1616

st1655

silentish1737

defta1763

sleeping1785

untoned1807

mousy1812

soughless1851

deathlike1856

whisperless1863

deathly1865

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > not worthy of notice or consideration

lessOE

smallc1405

unnotablec1454

regardless1557

mentionless1611

unregardable1614

unremarkable1625

inconsiderable1637

of no mentiona1640

unconsiderable1643

unobservable1658

unnoticeable1760

inconsequent1768

unappreciable1801

mousy1812

unnoteworthy1846

nebbishy1973

1812 Sporting Mag. 39 210 A man ought not to remain mousy [note: idle].

1828 A. M. Porter Coming Out in J. Porter & A. M. Porter Coming Out & Field of Forty Footsteps I. 104 It is so much better to be good natured, than mum and mousey like Amelia Manningham.

1863 ‘Holme Lee’ Annis Warleigh II. 309 To marry that most tiresome and disagreeable of mousy men.

1887 F. Marryat Daughter of Tropics I. xiii. 209 I always suspect those very quiet, mousey, saint-like creatures.

1915 W. Holt Beacon for Blind xxviii. 292 He would never overlook any quiet mousy individuals lost in the general gaiety, but would take pains to draw them out.

1936 K. A. Porter Flowering Judas 107 He could not bear hearing Miriam called a mousy little nit-wit.

1985 Sunday Times 6 Oct. 45/4 The stifling of her youthful passion for Joseph Chamberlain, and her choice of mousy Sidney in lieu.

2. Resembling or suggestive of a mouse in appearance, smell, etc.; (esp. of the hair) light dull brown in colour.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > superfamily Myomorpha (mouse, rat, vole, or hamster) > [adjective] > like a mouse

murine1607

mousy1853

murinoid1864

muriform1890

the world > life > the body > hair > colour of hair > [adjective] > other

auburn1430

mousy1888

the world > matter > colour > named colours > brown or brownness > [adjective] > light brown

parchment1597

whited brown1650

whitey-brown1658

coffee-coloured1695

dust-coloured1800

ochre-brown1853

blonde1866

biscuit1875

weedy-brown1886

mousy1888

bisque1890

toast-coloured1898

suntan1923

sunblush1930

rachel1951

1853 E. C. Gaskell Cranford ix. 164 I was..most particularly anxious to prevent her from disfiguring her small gentle mousey face with a great Saracen's-head turban.

1865 D. Livingstone & C. Livingstone Narr. Exped. Zambesi xxviii. 575 Where we inhaled so much of the heavy mousey smell that it was distinguishable in the odour of our shirts and flannels.

1888 G. MacDonald Elect Lady 10 He would..pass a white left hand through his short-cut mousey hair.

1894 Spectator 30 June 901 There are those who have tried the bat, and found it taste like a house-mouse, only mousier.

1959 W. Golding Free Fall iv. 82 Fair heads and mousy ones.

1975 Times 15 Feb. 14/2 Hair which is ‘light brown’ sounds more becoming than hair which is ‘mousy’.

1988 Grimsby Evening Tel. 5 Feb. 1 One was in his late teens, 5ft. 10in. tall, slim, with blond mousey hair, cut very short and neat.

3. Containing mice; having many mice; infested with mice. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > infestation by noxious creatures > [adjective] > with rats or mice

rattish1822

rat-infested1824

ratty1857

mousy1871

1871 J. Stormonth Etymol. & Pronouncing Dict. 374/1 Mousy, abounding in mice.

1876 M. E. Braddon Dead Men's Shoes I. i. 11 She has tea-things and tea-kettle to her hand in the roomy and mousey old closet beside the fire place.

1957 M. Spark Comforters vii. 177 Mrs Hogg..climbing to her mousy room at Chiswick where, as she opened the door, two mice scuttled..swiftly down their hole beside the gas meter.

Compounds

C1.

mousy-brown n. and adj.

ΚΠ

1901 J. Davidson Self's the Man ii. 109 I believe The hue was mousy-brown.

1925 J. Dos Passos Manhattan Transfer ii. i. 131 She shook her hair loose of the crimpers and combed out the new mousybrown waves.

1991 R. Butters Look about & Die (BNC) 103 A woman unknown to him, about twenty-five years of age, pretty in a conventional way, with mousy-brown hair.

mousy-grey n. and adj.

ΚΠ

1897 Star 4 Jan. 1/7 A curious shade of mousy grey.

1937 Amer. Home Apr. 66/3 (advt.) Forget you ever heard of neutral walls and mousey-gray carpets.

1993 W. Dalrymple City of Djinns (BNC) 259 Its pillars were just rectangular blocks of mousy-grey ashlar.

C2.

mousy-eyed adj.

ΚΠ

1909 M. B. Saunders Litany Lane i. ii. 13 Only a fold of dark chestnut hair and a hint of red in the lip gave colour—otherwise a little mousy-eyed gamin of a thing.

mousy-faced adj.

ΚΠ

1880 E. Lynn Linton Rebel of Family iii, in Temple Bar 5 Jan. 143 A pale, light-haired, mousey-faced little woman.

1990 Washington Times (Nexis) 16 Apr. e3 A naive, mousey-faced country singer who thinks a song she wrote has been stolen and put to music under another writer's name.

mousy-haired adj.

ΚΠ

1982 R. Rendell Master of Moor ii. 21 He was rather nondescript, not very tall, thin, mousy-haired.

1992 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) May 215/1 Hillary..was..mousy-haired, makeupless, and somewhat intimidating behind her oversize, Steinem-like glasses.

mousy-quiet adj.

ΚΠ

1902 R. Kipling Just So Stories 146 Taffy took a marrow-bone and sat mousy quiet for ten whole minutes.

1958 Observer 3 Aug. 10/6 Young married business man, cleared by mousey quiet private detective.

1996 Village Voice (N.Y.) (Nexis) 3 Dec. 41 On the evening of November 13, the Masonic Temple, a Brooklyn ‘safehouse’ of the United African Movement, is mousy quiet.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mousy
释义	mousyn. Brit. /ˈmaʊsi/, U.S. /ˈmaʊsi/ Forms: 1600s– mousie, 1700s– mousey, 1800s mousy. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mouse n., -y suffix⁶. Etymology: < mouse n. + -y suffix⁶. colloquial. A mouse. Also as a pet name and as a term of endearment for a child or a woman. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > superfamily Myomorpha (mouse, rat, vole, or hamster) > [noun] > family Muridae > genus Mus or mouse mouseeOE mousy1692 murine1879 1692 ‘J. Curate’ Sc. Presbyterian Eloquence iv. 113 Thou'rt like a Mousie peeping out at the hole of a Wall. 1764 K. O'Hara Midas i. 21 Pussey Can counterfeit sleeping, When mousey Steals tip-a-toe creeping. 1786 R. Burns To Mouse vii, in Poems 140 But Mousie, thou art no thy-lane, In proving foresight may be vain. 1845 Zoologist 3 1030 On my return [I] found poor mousy in convulsions. 1883 W. C. Smith North Country Folk 30 She always got some pretty name as I took her upstairs to her bed, As Mousie, or Birdie, or Daisy, or anything dainty or sweet. 1921 H. Williamson Beautiful Years 43 What's the good of life, eh, mousie? You've been made a perfect little body, yet no one cares if you'm be killed or not—you'm eat t'corn and t'peas, and others eat you. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 450 Has little mousey any tickles tonight? 1989 Sunday Sun (Brisbane) 17 Dec. 65 (cartoon caption) Oh! I see that you've found my rubber mousey. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). mousyadj. Brit. /ˈmaʊsi/, U.S. /ˈmaʊsi/ Forms: 1800s– mousey, 1800s– mousy. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mouse n., -y suffix¹. Etymology: < mouse n. + -y suffix¹. 1. Of a person, a person's behaviour, etc.: suggestive of a mouse; shy, quiet, timid, ineffectual. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > humility > modesty > [adjective] simplec1300 measurablec1330 methec1390 murec1390 smallc1405 soleinc1450 timorous1474 modest1561 unbragging1570 unboldened1591 unpresuming1607 bragless1609 unambitious1621 boastless1632 unpompous1656 verecundous1656 sober1659 tender-foreheaded1659 unpragmatical1673 unpretending1681 unpresumptuous1704 unimportant1727 unaspiringa1729 inambitious1729 unassuming1730 unostentatiousa1739 unboastful1744 pretensionless1748 unarrogating1748 uncontending1748 unopinionated1775 unboasting1802 underbearing1802 mousy1812 un-ultra1817 unarrogant1831 low-flying1835 unconceited1838 unpretentious1838 uninflated1861 unvain1863 unbumptious1865 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > inaudibility > [adjective] > silent coyc1330 stone-still1338 quietc1384 softa1393 peacec1400 swownc1400 tongueless1447 clumc1485 mutec1500 whist1513 silent1542 dead1548 husht1557 whisted1557 whust1558 whust1558 whisht1570 huisht1576 quiet (also mum, mute, still, etc.) as a mouse (in a cheese)1584 fordead1593 noiseless1608 whisha1612 dumba1616 soundlessa1616 st1655 silentish1737 defta1763 sleeping1785 untoned1807 mousy1812 soughless1851 deathlike1856 whisperless1863 deathly1865 the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > not worthy of notice or consideration lessOE smallc1405 unnotablec1454 regardless1557 mentionless1611 unregardable1614 unremarkable1625 inconsiderable1637 of no mentiona1640 unconsiderable1643 unobservable1658 unnoticeable1760 inconsequent1768 unappreciable1801 mousy1812 unnoteworthy1846 nebbishy1973 1812 Sporting Mag. 39 210 A man ought not to remain mousy [note: idle]. 1828 A. M. Porter Coming Out in J. Porter & A. M. Porter Coming Out & Field of Forty Footsteps I. 104 It is so much better to be good natured, than mum and mousey like Amelia Manningham. 1863 ‘Holme Lee’ Annis Warleigh II. 309 To marry that most tiresome and disagreeable of mousy men. 1887 F. Marryat Daughter of Tropics I. xiii. 209 I always suspect those very quiet, mousey, saint-like creatures. 1915 W. Holt Beacon for Blind xxviii. 292 He would never overlook any quiet mousy individuals lost in the general gaiety, but would take pains to draw them out. 1936 K. A. Porter Flowering Judas 107 He could not bear hearing Miriam called a mousy little nit-wit. 1985 Sunday Times 6 Oct. 45/4 The stifling of her youthful passion for Joseph Chamberlain, and her choice of mousy Sidney in lieu. 2. Resembling or suggestive of a mouse in appearance, smell, etc.; (esp. of the hair) light dull brown in colour. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > superfamily Myomorpha (mouse, rat, vole, or hamster) > [adjective] > like a mouse murine1607 mousy1853 murinoid1864 muriform1890 the world > life > the body > hair > colour of hair > [adjective] > other auburn1430 mousy1888 the world > matter > colour > named colours > brown or brownness > [adjective] > light brown parchment1597 whited brown1650 whitey-brown1658 coffee-coloured1695 dust-coloured1800 ochre-brown1853 blonde1866 biscuit1875 weedy-brown1886 mousy1888 bisque1890 toast-coloured1898 suntan1923 sunblush1930 rachel1951 1853 E. C. Gaskell Cranford ix. 164 I was..most particularly anxious to prevent her from disfiguring her small gentle mousey face with a great Saracen's-head turban. 1865 D. Livingstone & C. Livingstone Narr. Exped. Zambesi xxviii. 575 Where we inhaled so much of the heavy mousey smell that it was distinguishable in the odour of our shirts and flannels. 1888 G. MacDonald Elect Lady 10 He would..pass a white left hand through his short-cut mousey hair. 1894 Spectator 30 June 901 There are those who have tried the bat, and found it taste like a house-mouse, only mousier. 1959 W. Golding Free Fall iv. 82 Fair heads and mousy ones. 1975 Times 15 Feb. 14/2 Hair which is ‘light brown’ sounds more becoming than hair which is ‘mousy’. 1988 Grimsby Evening Tel. 5 Feb. 1 One was in his late teens, 5ft. 10in. tall, slim, with blond mousey hair, cut very short and neat. 3. Containing mice; having many mice; infested with mice. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > infestation by noxious creatures > [adjective] > with rats or mice rattish1822 rat-infested1824 ratty1857 mousy1871 1871 J. Stormonth Etymol. & Pronouncing Dict. 374/1 Mousy, abounding in mice. 1876 M. E. Braddon Dead Men's Shoes I. i. 11 She has tea-things and tea-kettle to her hand in the roomy and mousey old closet beside the fire place. 1957 M. Spark Comforters vii. 177 Mrs Hogg..climbing to her mousy room at Chiswick where, as she opened the door, two mice scuttled..swiftly down their hole beside the gas meter. Compounds C1. mousy-brown n. and adj. ΚΠ 1901 J. Davidson Self's the Man ii. 109 I believe The hue was mousy-brown. 1925 J. Dos Passos Manhattan Transfer ii. i. 131 She shook her hair loose of the crimpers and combed out the new mousybrown waves. 1991 R. Butters Look about & Die (BNC) 103 A woman unknown to him, about twenty-five years of age, pretty in a conventional way, with mousy-brown hair. mousy-grey n. and adj. ΚΠ 1897 Star 4 Jan. 1/7 A curious shade of mousy grey. 1937 Amer. Home Apr. 66/3 (advt.) Forget you ever heard of neutral walls and mousey-gray carpets. 1993 W. Dalrymple City of Djinns (BNC) 259 Its pillars were just rectangular blocks of mousy-grey ashlar. C2. mousy-eyed adj. ΚΠ 1909 M. B. Saunders Litany Lane i. ii. 13 Only a fold of dark chestnut hair and a hint of red in the lip gave colour—otherwise a little mousy-eyed gamin of a thing. mousy-faced adj. ΚΠ 1880 E. Lynn Linton Rebel of Family iii, in Temple Bar 5 Jan. 143 A pale, light-haired, mousey-faced little woman. 1990 Washington Times (Nexis) 16 Apr. e3 A naive, mousey-faced country singer who thinks a song she wrote has been stolen and put to music under another writer's name. mousy-haired adj. ΚΠ 1982 R. Rendell Master of Moor ii. 21 He was rather nondescript, not very tall, thin, mousy-haired. 1992 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) May 215/1 Hillary..was..mousy-haired, makeupless, and somewhat intimidating behind her oversize, Steinem-like glasses. mousy-quiet adj. ΚΠ 1902 R. Kipling Just So Stories 146 Taffy took a marrow-bone and sat mousy quiet for ten whole minutes. 1958 Observer 3 Aug. 10/6 Young married business man, cleared by mousey quiet private detective. 1996 Village Voice (N.Y.) (Nexis) 3 Dec. 41 On the evening of November 13, the Masonic Temple, a Brooklyn ‘safehouse’ of the United African Movement, is mousy quiet. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1692adj.1812
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