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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
- (chiefly humorous) plural of moose
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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
meese
- (obsolete) A titmouse.
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