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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Resembling a mouse, especially:
  2. adj. Having a drab, pale brown color: mousy hair.
  3. adj. Having small sharp features: a mousy face.
  4. adj. Quiet; timid; shy.
  5. adj. Infested with mice.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Of or relating to a mouse or the color or smell of a mouse.
  2. Abounding with mice.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Resembling a mouse
  2. adj. Quiet, stealthy
  3. adj. Timid.
  4. adj. A greyish brown colour.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Infested with mice; smelling of mice.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. infested with mice
  2. adj. quiet and timid and ineffectual
  3. adj. of something having a drab pale brown color resembling a mouse

Etymologies

  1. From mouse +‎ -y (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “First Impression: Irma is described as mousy in both demeanor and appearance.”

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  • “Verdict: At the start, my hair would best be described as mousy.”

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  • “He seems to be channeling his inner William Hurt, doing a kind of mousy performance with bad glasses that reminded me of Hurt in The Doctor or other movies of his from twenty-some years back.”

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  • ““Very short, kind of mousy brown hair” is how her high-school drama teacher recalls her.”

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  • “She was kind of mousy looking; not unattractive but not hot and certainly not trying very hard.”

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  • “He had once referred to his sister as "mousy," but he hadn't meant it unkindly.”

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  • “And although "mousy" is a common adjective used by several of the story characters in describing Claire, she is not a weak or mousy character, and nor does she have a weak voice.”

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  • “Paris Hilton wants to date Prince William - when he gets rid of his "mousy" girlfriend.”

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  • “Paris Hilton would love to date Britain's Prince William - but only after the royal gets rid of his "mousy" girlfriend.”

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  • “Paris Hilton wants to get together Prince William - when he gets rid of his "mousy" girlfriend.”

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equivalents (2)

Other words for ‘mousy’

  1. timid
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  3. wide-set
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  2. longish
  3. peacable
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  3. darkish
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rhymes (1)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. rousey

reverse dictionary (3)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. mousey
  1. mousy
  1. y

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  • Prolagus Sunbeam shone, mousy girl on the end pew
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    (Le Pastie de la Bourgeoisie, by Belle and Sebastian) Sep 8, 2008

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