Mousy

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Mousy \Mous"y\ (mouz"[y^]), a.
     Infested with mice; smelling of mice.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  mousy
       adj 1: timid and ineffectual [syn: {mousey}]
       2: having a drab pale brown color resembling a mouse; "a mousy
          grownish-gray color"; "mouse-colored hair"; "a mouselike
          rodent" [syn: {mouse-colored}, {mouselike}]
       [also: {mousiest}, {mousier}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  161 Moby Thesaurus words for "mousy":
     Quaker-colored, acier, afraid, ashen, ashy, bashful, brown,
     brownish, canescent, chicken, chickenhearted, cinereous, cinerous,
     colorless, confused, conscious, coward, cowardly, cowed, cowering,
     coy, dapple, dapple-gray, dappled, dappled-gray, daunted, demure,
     diffident, dingy, dismal, dismayed, dove-colored, dove-gray, drab,
     dreary, dull, dun, dusty, echoless, fainthearted, fearful, fearing,
     fearsome, flat, funking, funky, glaucescent, glaucous, goosy, gray,
     gray-black, gray-brown, gray-colored, gray-drab, gray-green,
     gray-spotted, gray-toned, gray-white, grayed, grayish, grey,
     griseous, grizzle, grizzled, grizzly, henhearted, hush as death,
     hushed, in fear, inarticulate, inaudible, intimidated, iron-gray,
     jumpy, lead-gray, leaden, lily-livered, livid, milk-livered,
     milksoppish, milksoppy, mouse-colored, mouse-gray, mouselike,
     mousey, nervous, noiseless, overtimid, overtimorous, panic-prone,
     panicky, pearl, pearl-gray, pearly, pigeonhearted, plain,
     quiescent, quiet, rabbity, ratty, rodent, rodential, sad, scary,
     self-conscious, self-effacing, shaky, shamefaced, shamefast,
     shivery, shrinking, shy, silent, silver, silver-gray, silvered,
     silvery, sissified, sissy, skittery, skittish, slate-colored,
     slaty, smoke-gray, smoky, sober, soft, somber, soundless,
     stammering, startlish, steel-gray, steely, still, still as death,
     stilly, stone-colored, subaudible, taupe, timid, timorous,
     trembling, tremulous, trepidant, trigger-happy, unarticulated,
     unhearable, unmanly, unmanned, unpronounced, unsounded, unuttered,
     unvocalized, unvoiced, verminous, weak, weak-kneed, weakhearted,
     whist, white-livered, yellow