mice

English Online Dictionary. What means mice‎? What does mice mean?

English

Etymology

From Middle English mys, mice, muis, mise, mis, from Old English mȳs (“mice”), from an umlauted form of Proto-Germanic *mūsiz (“mice”), nominative and vocative plural of Proto-Germanic *mūs (“mouse”). Compare Scots mice, mise, myse, myce (“mice”), West Frisian mûzen (“mice”), Dutch muizen (“mice”), German Mäuse (“mice”), Swedish möss (“mice”), Faroese mýs (“mice”), Icelandic mýs (“mice”). More at mouse.

Pronunciation

• enPR: mīs, IPA^(key): /maɪs/
• Rhymes: -aɪs

Noun

mice

1. plural of mouse

Verb

mice (third-person singular simple present mices, present participle micing, simple past and past participle miced)

1. (Bermuda, chiefly in the form micin) To be distracted or inattentive (possibly alluding to a cat being distracted by a mouse).

References

• “mice”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Anagrams

• ICEM, ICME, cemi, emic

Latvian

Noun

mice f (5th declension)

1. (colloquial) hat
2. (colloquial) cap
3. (colloquial) tucker

Declension

Synonyms

• aube

See also

• cepure f
• platmale f