meeces
See also: Meeces
English
editEtymology
editOriginates from Huckleberry Hound, a series of cartoons from the 1960s, in which the character Mr. Jinks exclaims, "I hate meeces to pieces!"
Noun
editmeeces
- (nonstandard, childish) plural of mice (which is itself a plural of mouse).
- 1983, The Cure (band), The Love Cats (song)
- Not broken in pieces, like hated little meeces.
- 1988, 24 January, Married ... with Children (episode "Build a Better Mousetrap")
- We hate meeces to pieces.
- 1994, DBASE for DOS for Dummies, page 73:
- However, we also must urge you to get a mouse because the battle is over, and those hateful meeces have won.
- 2002, Warning! This Book May Contain Life, page 6:
- Watch the little meeces carefully.
- 2005, Miracle Over Miami: How the 2003 Marlins Shocked the World, page 78:
- "I hate meeces to pieces," he said. Art Howe, manager of the New York Mets last year after seven years in Oakland and five in Houston.
- 1983, The Cure (band), The Love Cats (song)
References
edit- The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English (2005) p. 1281.
- http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/meeces