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[ mou-see, -zee ] / ˈmaʊ si, -zi / SEE SYNONYMS FOR mousy ON THESAURUS.COM
adjective, mous·i·er, mous·i·est.resembling or suggesting a mouse, as in color or odor. drab and colorless. meek; timid: A drill sergeant can't be mousy! quiet; noiseless: a mousy tread. infested with mice. Origin of mousyFirst recorded in 1805–15; mouse + -y1 SYNONYMS FOR mousy3 fearful, shy, bashful, timorous. SEE SYNONYMS FOR mousy ON THESAURUS.COM OTHER WORDS FROM mousymous·i·ly, adverbmous·i·ness, nounWords nearby mousymousseline sauce, Moussorgsky, moustache, moustache cup, Mousterian, mousy, MOUT, mouth, mouthbreeder, mouthbrooder, mouthed Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for mousyBeen 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|DAILY BEAST Gaga 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|DAILY BEAST He 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|DAILY BEAST She wore a green blazer, round glasses and her mousy brown hair in a mousse-less blob. The Revenge of Daria|Rebecca Dana|May 15, 2010|DAILY BEAST
“Ruth is a mousy little woman, really,” said one prominent political figure in town. Ruth Madoff's Private World|Lucinda Franks|April 6, 2009|DAILY BEAST Emily was dressy, wore a false front, and always took precedence of her sister, who was small and mousy in demeanour. Betty Trevor|Mrs. G. de Horne Vaizey A mousy light lingered in the shrubbery; bats were flying against a salmon-tinted sky as they took the path homeward. The Slayer Of souls|Robert Chambers The people are charming, and the house is a mousy, ratty, ramshackle place hundreds of years old. The Roof of France|Matilda Betham-Edwards A bat was flying somewhere near—he felt the wind from its mousy wings. Lorraine|Robert W. Chambers This is the prettiest Cerastium, though not so "mousy" as some, and grows in dry as well as moist situations. Field Book of Western Wild Flowers|Margaret Armstrong
British Dictionary definitions for mousy
adjective mousier or mousiestresembling a mouse, esp in having a light brown or greyish hair colour shy or ineffectuala mousy little woman infested with mice Derived forms of mousymousily, adverbmousiness, nounCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to mousybashful, colorless, diffident, dull, indeterminate, ineffectual, pale, plain, shy, timid, timorous, unassuming, self-effacing, unassertive |