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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We always called it mop water or mousy blonde [/quote]

I thought mousy was warm undertones, like blonde and brown mixed.  Whereas dishwater is cool undertones, blonde and gray.  [/quote]

Mousy means messy, not a color. Unkempt hair in need of taming.[/quote]

This is incorrect. A simple google result gives:

Mousy is a drab, pale, or dull light brown/greyish hair color. It is commonly used to describe a neutral, non-descript shade that resembles a mouse's fur.

Color Profile: It is often described as a light, slightly cool-toned brown or a "dirty blonde".
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Nobody with shiny healthy brown hair ever gets called mousy.[/quote]

If it's light brownish - it can absolutely be called mousy brown.   :roll: [/quote]

Only if it’s messy, undone, and dirty looking. [/quote]

You've seriously never heard of the expression "mousy brown"?  Good grief.

https://www.madison-reed.com/blog/the-comeback-of-mousy-brown-hair
https://therighthairstyles.com/mousy-brown-hair/
https://doseofhairstyles.com/mousy-brown-hair/

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I have head it and it’s always said about messy hair. Nobody has ever said someone’s beautiful and well styled hair was a luscious mousy brown. It’s brown, dry and a hot mess. [/quote]

So many people on this thread have clearly not read much fiction. "Mousy" brown is a literary term. It originally just described a color and could be applied to anything -- a mousy brown dress, a mousy brown wallpaper. It just described a specific shade of kind of dully, grayish brown. Over time the use of the shade description died out, except as applied to hair. Likely because authors came to like how describing a character as having mousy brown hair could also convey a kind of mousiness about their personality as well -- a smallness or a skittishness.

Because the term dates back to the early 19th century and became broadly used during a time when people had limited options for haircare, it wouldn't make sense for it to describe hair that is a "hot mess." This sort of hair didn't really become a concept until more recently because men and women wore their hair mostly the same (women, in particular, pretty much always wore their hair long and then braided or pinned up, even across socioeconomic classes, until the early 20th century) the primary descriptor here is color, not messiness.

There may be characters described as being both messy in appearance and having mousy hair, but I've also seen characters with mousy hair described as simply being "plain" or even in some cases being "neat" or "tidy". Mousy just describes a color.[/quote]

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