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🐭 Full of mice 🟫 Dull brown-grey 😶 Shy and quiet
mousey

mousey

8.0
A place that has many mice
  • adjective
  • /ˈmaʊsi/
translation icon : infestado de ratones
  • The abandoned house in the woods was very mousey, with droppings scattered everywhere.

Examples

  • The mousey basement was a clear sign that the property needed better pest control measures.

  • After a long winter, we discovered our garage had become quite mousey due to the lack of activity.

  • Here, mousey, mousey, mousey.

    Christmas in the Clouds (2001)

  • Here, mousey, mousey, mousey.

    Christmas in the Clouds (2001)

Synonyms

mousy
vsmousey
7.9

Full of mice in a house or room

has the same meaning but uses an alternate spelling

Antonyms

uninfested
5.6

Not having pests such as insects and mice

How Infested

mousey
8.0
pest-free
1 3.3

Surface Forms

mousey positive

Morphology

mousey = mouse (transparent) = mouse + y

Formed directly from the noun 'mouse' with the adjectival suffix '-y' meaning 'characterized by or full of mice'.

Etymology

Mousey comes from mouse and the ending -y, meaning 'like a mouse'. So when a place is called mousey, it feels 'full of mice' or as if mice are living there.