Mice

//maɪs// noun, verb

noun, verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    plural of mouse form-of, plural
Verb
  1. 1
    To be distracted or inattentive (possibly alluding to a cat being distracted by a mouse).

    "That cat's mysin, he doesn't see the dog coming."

Synonyms

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mouses

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"When the cat is away, the mice will play."

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.

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