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mousey

American  
[mou-see, -zee] / ˈmaʊ si, -zi /

adjective

mousier, mousiest
  1. mousy.


mousey British  
/ ˈmaʊsɪ /

adjective

  1. a variant spelling of mousy

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The college student’s mousey brown hair, wide eyes and grin are somewhat similar to Chalamet's, but not an exact match.

From Salon Oct. 29, 2024

Pictures posted on social media show a cheeky, smiling little girl with piercing blue eyes and a mop of short, mousey brown hair.

From BBC Dec. 14, 2021

Her natural colour is a mousey brown, with only the odd grey strand, though she has thought about going grey.

From The Guardian Sep. 8, 2019

Similar mildly philosophical conversations recur throughout the novel: Why is it that a rather mousey, unprepossessing man can seduce women more successfully than a witty and handsome one?

From Washington Post Jun. 17, 2015

I say, “We found that! Behind the mousey chair!”

From "The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle" by Leslie Connor

Jennifer and She-Hulk are the same persona dwelling in two different bodies, with her statuesque, green-skinned form gaining her considerably more cachet than her shorter and supposedly mousier self.

From Salon Aug. 19, 2022

She's frumpier than Mum, any day, and mousier.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

“Hush, my dear boy!” she said, in her soothing way, as if she were stroking me down the back like she stroked her tabby Tom—one of the mousiest and most petted of cats.

From She and I, Volume 1 by Hutcheson, John C. (John Conroy)

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