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Mousy   /mˈaʊsi/   Listen
Mousy

adjective
1.
Quiet and timid and ineffectual.  Synonym: mousey.
2.
Infested with mice.  Synonym: mousey.
3.
Of something having a drab pale brown color resembling a mouse.  Synonyms: mouse-colored, mouselike, mousey.  "Mousy hair" , "Mouse-colored hair"





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"Mousy" Quotes from Famous Books



... mousy-quiet in her chair, mentally registered another requirement toward being the kind of girl she ought to be. There were such lots of wonderful things ...
— The Wishing-Ring Man • Margaret Widdemer
... he heard the tramp of the cuirassier sentinels, and beyond that the uproar of artillery, passing, always passing. He stared about in the darkness, he peered up the staircase into the gloom. A bat was flying somewhere near—he felt the wind from its mousy wings. ...
— Lorraine - A romance • Robert W. Chambers


Words linked to "Mousy" :   mouse-colored, chromatic, mouselike, mouse, timid


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