Mousey

adj, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative spelling of mousy. alt-of, alternative

    "It came back again, and would run on the strings / When all were at rest in the house, / And backward and forward, from treble to bass, / Sometimes in a trot, and sometimes in a race— / Huzza for my musical mouse! / At night, when the house would be still, and the moon / Behind the high hill would retire, / By harmony’s magical powers impress’d, / This gay little mousey would steal from its nest, / And run up and down on each wire."

Adjective
  1. 1
    Alternative spelling of mousy. alt-of, alternative

    "Yes, it must be hell. It hasn't stopped Hathaway, though. The star of The Princess Diaries and The Princess Diaries 2 is now the star of One Day, playing complicated, mousey Yorkshireperson Emma Morley."

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

Synonyms

All synonyms
mouse coloredmouse-coloredmouselikemousymousytimid

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"Mrs. Screed was a mousey, anxious little woman."

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