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English
Etymology
From mice + -less.
Adjective
miceless (not comparable)
- (rare) Without mice.
1867, Fitz Hugh Ludlow, “A Brace of Boys”, in Little Brother; and Other Genre-Pictures, Boston, Mass.: Lee and Shepard, pages 263–264:Her height was a trifle over the medium; her eyes a soft expressive brown, shaded by masses of hair which exactly matched their color, and, at that rat-and-miceless day, fell in such graceful abandon as to show at once that nature was the only maid who crimped their waves into them.
1985, The Atlantic, page 92, column 2:“REMEBERING AMERICA is a delightful assembly of 10,000 curious things: Chanteymen, snow sailing, a miceless house, courting lamps, a spasm band, an anvil salute, and the wondrous city of Diddy-Wah-Diddy: Our country, ’tis of thee, sweet land of peculiarity, of thee this sings.”—William Least Heat-Moon
2000, Iris Lee Underwood, Encouraging Words for All Seasons, →ISBN, page 22:Certainly, it would be impossible to replace Sweetie or Sparky. I thought our almost worthless cat, P. J., might possess Sweetie’s quality since we rescued him from death by bottle-feeding him. Wrong! He keeps the house miceless, but does not appreciate a good quiet time of bonding and sky-gazing.