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mice

/maɪs/

Rhymes with -aɪs

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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.

noun

plural plural of mouse

verb mices · micing · miced

in the form micin 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.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: animals, birds, fairy, humans, laugh, rat, rats, rodents, smile, souris, squirrels, murines, murids, mus, mus musculus, fieldmice

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@misc{mice_2026,
  title = {mice},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/mice},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}