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meese

UK/miːs/

meese is the plural of moose.

Meaning of moose

Noun (1)

moose (plural moose or (dated, rare) mooses or (nonstandard, humorous) meese)

  1. The largest member of the deer family (Alces americanus, sometimes included in Alces alces), of which the male has very large, palmate antlers.
    • We saw a moose at the edge of the woods.
  2. Any of the extinct moose-like deer of the genera Cervalces and Libralces.
    • Europe’s giant beavers lived at the same time as the first moose, Libralces gallicus.2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 152
  3. (colloquial, derogatory, figuratively) An ugly person.

Noun (2)

moose

  1. (US, slang) An Asian girl taken as a lover.
    • In military bases in the rear areas it was common for soldiers to have a moose.2005, Rupert Nelson, Like the Rings of a Tree, page 279

See all 6 meanings of moose

Noun

meese

  1. (obsolete) A titmouse.

Proper noun capitalized: Meese

Meese (countable and uncountable, plural Meeses)

  1. A surname.
  2. A river in Shropshire, England, a tributary of the River Tern.

Forms of meese

pluralMeeses

Origin of meese

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.

Borrowed from Dutch mees.

Words that rhyme with meese

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Questions about meese

What does meese mean?
Meese means a titmouse.
What is meese the plural of?
Meese is the plural of moose.
What part of speech is meese?
Meese can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce meese?
Meese is pronounced /miːs/ (UK).

Words near meese in the dictionary

  1. Meerwein-Ponndorf reactions
  2. Meerwein-Ponndorf-Verley reduction
  3. Meerwein-Ponndorf-Verley reductions
  4. mees
  5. Meesdorf
  6. meese
  7. Meeses
  8. Meeson
  9. meess
  10. meesses
  11. meester

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Adapted from Wiktionary: meese (page history and authors); Meese (page history and authors); moose (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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