Examples
“To the news, now," she keeps trying to say, while Scarborough and his brother-in-bombast laugh at her, deride her desire to do anything resembling actual journalism, and harass her with infantilizing, patronizing comments such as this one from Joe: "By the way, Mika's father called her mousey a couple weeks ago, and Mika's been yelling at me all morning to prove to her father that she is no mouse.”
Jennifer L. Pozner: Paris Isn't Burning - Much to MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski's Chagrin
“Even when one is quite well, the breath has a queer "mousey" odor, so that we never like to breathe the breath of another person.”
“Great monopolists control the supplies, and contract to deliver to these hotels, even in out-of-the-way localities, so much ice-stored, "mousey" fish, "mousey" quails, stringy meat, impossible vegetables and fruits, gathered from the cheapest markets of Europe and of a quality just not bad enough to cause a revolt among the hotel visitors.”
“Looking at his standard-issue scurrying gait, his shrugging, mousey demeanour, and then witnessing the preternatural skittering electricity in those feet, you wonder why there hasn't ever been one of these before, or even hundreds of them.”
The Guardian: Ten ways to satisfy your constant craving for El Clásico | Barney Ronay
“She has changed from a mousey, insecure, drift into the background type person to a very outspoken confident individual.”
“Mice carry lost souls to the Other side, but they also carry them back again, at their mousey whim.”
“Although Sheri and Cedric are initially shocked at the idea of their mousey Toni who works as a waitress in an Italian restaurant getting done up in spangles and glitter, the contest judge who is foolish enough to cross the Campari tribe unleashes a fury of familial defiance.”
The Huffington Post: George Heymont: Fancy Footwork (Competition Isn't Everything)
“She was my age and she had pale skin and mousey brown hair.”
“She used to be mousey and rarely stood up for herself.”
“As a male who has to live with this crap, why do such strong women get caught up in this just as much as mousey little 14 year old girls with Cosmo-complexes?”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘mousey’.
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Mousey
See also Of Mice and Men.
mouse, mousey, rattlemouse, titmouse, shrewmouse, dormouse, pine mouse, wood mouse, deer mouse, field mouse, house mouse, jumping mouse and 14 more...
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Special Beasts
I'm looking for compounds or phrases where the character of an animal is essential to the meaning, yet the term is usable in general conversation.
scapegoat, bull market, sacred cow, bear market, hangdog, cat o' nine tails, clothes horse, mousey, donkey drop, black sheep, horseplay, ducks and drakes and 94 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for mousey.
bilby
It's a god-awful small affair,
to the girl with the mousey hair,
but her mother is yelling 'No!'
and her father has told her to go
- David Bowie, 'Life On Mars'. Sep 8, 2008
she Ha! If only this were what was meant by saying "mousey girls" and "mousey brown hair." Aug 6, 2008