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UK
/mˈaʊsi/
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[ US /ˈmaʊsi/ ]
[ US /ˈmaʊsi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- quiet and timid and ineffectual
- infested with mice
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of something having a drab pale brown color resembling a mouse
a mousy brownish-grey color
mouse-colored hair
mousy hair
How To Use mousy In A Sentence
- As for the hair, it was characterless: a mousy mop that he would need to re-create completely. EVERVILLE
- Yesh, an bringz mee de rattly mousy toy ob de wicked kitteh ob de basemint! Wat girl? I iz all alown in here, promis. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
- Her vocals are mousy yet pretty (think Suzanne Vega, Julie Doiron), never overshadowing the delicate ambiance created by simple layers of loops and noodling.
- 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. German Wheat, Winter Crop
- The offender is said to be in his early 20s, six feet tall and slim with a pale complexion and dark mousy hair.
- Roy's pale skin turned grey, matching his unkempt hair, which had been mousy brown the last time she'd seen him. CHAMELEON
- While the thylacine, the devil, and the eastern quoll had been lost altogether, two minuscule species the white-footed dunnart and the swamp antechinus, a couple of mousy carnivorous marsupials did maintain populations on some of the tiny islands. The Song of The Dodo
- Two sisters, one a 15-year-old knockout, the other two years younger, overweight and mousy, are on holidays with their parents.
- She pulled the comforter off of her head, frizzing her mousy brown hair.
- Yes, this is another horrific tale of roommates gone wrong, with the mousy-voiced Meester (TV's "Gossip Girl") menacing the mousier-voiced Minka (TV's "Friday Night Lights" and "Parenthood"). The Seattle Times