[syn: mousy, mousey, mouse-colored, mouselike]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Mousy \Mous"y\ (mouz"[y^]), a.
Infested with mice; smelling of mice.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
mousy
adj 1: quiet and timid and ineffectual [syn: mousy, mousey]
2: infested with mice [syn: mousy, mousey]
3: of something having a drab pale brown color resembling a
mouse; "a mousy brownish-grey color"; "mousy hair"; "mouse-
colored hair" [syn: mousy, mousey, mouse-colored,
mouselike]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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