mousey

comparative mousier · superlative mousiest

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of mousy.

   Yes, it must be hell. It hasn't stopped Hathaway, though. The star of The Princess Diaries and The Princess Diaries 2 is now the star of One Day, playing complicated, mousey Yorkshireperson Emma Morley.

   2011 August 21, “Pass notes, No 3,030: Anne Hathaway”, in The Guardian

plural mouseys

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of mousy.

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   It came back again, and would run on the strings / When all were at rest in the house, / And backward and forward, from treble to bass, / Sometimes in a trot, and sometimes in a race— / Huzza for my musical mouse! / At night, when the house would be still, and the moon / Behind the high hill would retire, / By harmony’s magical powers impress’d, / This gay little mousey would steal from its nest, / And run up and down on each wire.

   1828, [Margaret Graves Derenzy], “The Mysterious Music. A Fact.”, in The Flowers of the Forest, Wellington, Salop: […] Houlston & Son. […], pages 42–43

   It was so much better to have things that are alive, he said, than mere wooden playthings, that he would rather have his mice than all his other playthings together. “I wonder what this little mousey is thinking about,” said he, one day, as he sat looking at them; “he must be thinking about something, he sits so still. How nice it would be if we could look into the minds of such creatures, wouldn’t it mother?”

   1846, Louisa Payson Hopkins, chapter V, in Henry Langdon, or, What Was I Made For?: Designed to Illustrate the First Question and Answer in the Westminster Catechism, New York, N.Y.: Gates & Stedman, […], pages 47–48

   Little mousey is off to school; / She wears her sweater because it’s cool. / Mother tells her to be good / And behave like little mouseys should. / Just before she is ready to leave / Mother Mouse tells her to fix her sleeve. / She gives her a lunch she knows will please, / Because the box is filled with cheese.

   1949 January, Ann Lee Hollinger, “Off to School”, in Wee Wisdom, volume LIV, number 6, page 32, column 3