mousy or mousey(ˈmaʊsɪ
)
Definitions
adjective
Word forms: mousier, mousiest
- resembling a mouse, esp in having a light brown or greyish hair colour
- shy or ineffectual ⇒
a mousy little woman
- infested with mice
Alternative Forms
ˈmousily adverb ˈmousiness nounUsage examples
The Inspector remembered his wife as a small, mousy woman, invariably worried.
, The Innocents at Home (A Superintendent Kenworthy novel) (1986)Even the mousy daughter Shivani (Matondkar), rejected by umpteen suitors, changes.
India Today (1999)4 ``It's a God-awful small affair to the girl with the mousy hair ' is the opening line from which well-known song?
The Advertiser, Sunday Mail (2004)The female responsible was said to be between 5ft 4ins and 5ft 6ins, of thin build, with long mousy brown hair.
Glasgow Herald (2001)She would marry him in spite of his mousy toast eating, his tendency to sinus trouble and foot rot.
, For the Love of a Stranger (1994)