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
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): [miːs][1]
- Rhymes: -iːs
Noun
meese
- (chiefly humorous) plural of moose
Usage notes
- For a discussion of the plural forms of moose, see the usage note at the entry for “moose”.
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:meese.
References
- 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
- (obsolete) titmouse
Anagrams
- seeme, semee, semée