meese

See also: Meese and méese

English

Etymology 1

Pluralization of moose on the pattern of Germanic strong declension nouns such as goose → geese, tooth → teeth, foot → feet, and the similarly jocularly-formed shoop → sheep.

Pronunciation

Noun

meese

  1. (nonstandard, chiefly humorous) plural of moose
Usage notes
Quotations
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References
  1. ^ Royal Skousen (1975) Substantive Evidence in Phonology: The Evidence from Finnish and French, The Hague: Mouton, page 25: “Do children in learning the language ever make “mistakes” by predicting, for example, that the plural of moose is [miːs] or that the plural of house is [hɑis]?”

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Dutch mees.

Noun

meese

  1. (obsolete) A titmouse.

Anagrams

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