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Definition: Mousey |
MouseyAdjective1. Timid and ineffectual. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "mousey" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1860. (references) |
Synonym: MouseySynonym: mousy (adj). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Mousey (1974) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| "Mousey" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 90.91% of the time. "Mousey" is used about 11 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 90.91% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Noun (proper) | 9.09% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 11 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "mousey": mousey-brown, mousey-coloured. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
mousey | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "mousey"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | miu (mousy, ratty), timid (mousy), i strukur (mousy, poor spirited, shy), i druajtur (backward, bashful, chary, coy, diffluent, faint-hearted, mousy, self-effacing, shy, timid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | فأري, كالفأر, خجول (abashed, ashamed, backward, bashful, chary, coy, diffident, embarrassed, mean, modest, retiring, self conscious, shamefaced, sheepish, sheep's, shrinking, shy, timid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | стеснителен (backward, diffident, gauche, modest, retiring, self conscious, shamefaced, sheepish, shrinking, timid, unassertive), скучен (arid, dead alive, drear, dryasdust, dull, dumb, dusty, heartbreaking, heavy, humdrum, insipid, jejune, jogtrot, long, long winded, long-spun, moldy, monotonous, mouldy, plodding, pokey, ponderous, prosaic, prosy, slow, soggy, stodgy, stuffy, tedious, uninspired, uninteresting, unvaried, vapid, weariful, wearisome), кротък (dovelike, meek, mild, placid, quiet), миши (murine, ratty), безшумен (noiseless, quiet, silent, soundless, still), безинтересен (characterless, chippy, dim, frumpish, incurious, languid, milk and water, sapless, soulless, stupid, unamusing, uninteresting, unreadable, vegetable, vegetal, warmed-over), пълен с мишки, провиснал и сивокафяв, плах (faint, furtive, nervy, pigeon-hearted, pusillanimous, stealthy, timid, tremulous, wan), дебнещ (insidious, slinky). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | timide (modest), de souris. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | mauseartig. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ποντικοειδήσ (mousy, ratty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | עכברי. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | da topo (mousy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ouseymay tímido (afraid, apprehensive, backward, bashful, blushing, diffident, eery, faint-hearted, fearful, fearsome, gawk, mousy, poor-spirited, pusillanimous, rabbity, shamefaced, sheep-faced, sheepish, shy, timid, timorous, tremulant, tremulous, unassertive), pardacento (mousy). (various references) робкий (bashful, chicken hearted, coward, diffident, faint, gingerly, gutless, milquetoast, pigeon-hearted, poor spirited, poor-spirited, shamefaced, sheep-faced, sheepish, shy, timid, timorous), тихий как мышь. (various references) mišji (mousy), plašljiv (afraid, craven, fearful, fearsome, henhearted, hen-hearted, lily livered, mousy, scary, shy, timid, tremulous). (various references) tímido (afraid, bashful, blushing, capon, coy, diffident, faint-hearted, fearful, mousy, nervous, shamefaced, sheepish, shy, timid, timorous, tongue tied), pardusco (brownish, drab, mousy). (various references) musgrå (mouse-colored, mouse-coloured, mousy), blyg (abashed, bashful, coy, demure, diffident, mousy, self-conscious, shamefaced, shy, timid). (various references) мишка (mousy), мишачий (mousy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-m-o-s-u-y" | |
-1 letter: meous, mosey, moues, mouse, mousy, youse. | |
-2 letters: emus, meou, moue, muse, oyes, some, sumo. | |
-3 letters: ems, emu, mos, mus, oes, oms, ose, som, sou, soy, sue, sum, use, yes, yom, you, yum. | |
-4 letters: em, es, me, mo, mu, my, oe, om, os, oy, so, um, us, ye, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-m-o-s-u-y" | |
+2 letters: costumey, euonymus, evonymus, koumyses. | |
+3 letters: costumery, emulously, eponymous, fulsomely, koumysses, museology, pseudonym, timeously, voyeurism. | |
+4 letters: consumedly, enormously, euonymuses, evonymuses, gruesomely, hemizygous, mosquitoey, mystagogue, mysterious, neodymiums, numerously, polysemous, pseudonyms, subeconomy, venomously, voyeurisms. | |
+5 letters: humorlessly, hydromedusa, imperiously, impetuosity, impetuously, marvelously, melodiously, molybdenums, momentously, murderously, myelogenous, myelomatous, myoclonuses, mystagogues, myxoviruses, subemployed, sympetalous, tautonymies, tremulously, unemployeds. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 6F 75 73 65 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- --- ..- ... . -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01101111 01110101 01110011 01100101 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M o u s e y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 006F 0075 0073 0065 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)478187857191 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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