of something having a drab pale brown color resembling a mouse
<adj.all> a mousy brownish-grey color mousy hair mouse-colored hair
Mousy \Mous"y\ (mouz"[y^]), a. Infested with mice; smelling of mice.
The family of Amy Dorrit, his mother's mousy seamstress, becomes the object of his philanthropic urge.
In "Alice" he cast his lover Mia Farrow as a mopey, mousy, repressed wife of a philandering millionaire.
Added to this are excellent supporting performances by Bette Henritze as a mousy secretary and Paxton Whitehead as a pompous, befuddled lawyer, all adroitly directed by Michael Blakemore.