different between mice vs mousery

English

Etymology

From Middle English mys, mice, muis, mise, mis, from Old English m?s (“mice”), cheshirization from Proto-Germanic *m?siz (“mice”), nominative and vocative plural of Proto-Germanic *m?s (“mouse”). Compare Scots mice, mise, myse, myce (“mice”), West Frisian mûzen (“mice”), Dutch muizen (“mice”), German Mäuse (“mice”), Swedish möss (“mice”), Faroese mýs (“mice”), Icelandic mýs (“mice”). More at mouse.

Pronunciation

• enPR: m?s, IPA^(key): /ma?s/
• Rhymes: -a?s

Noun

mice

1. plural of mouse

Anagrams

• ICEM, ICME, cemi, emic

Latvian

Noun

mice f (5th declension)

1. (colloquial) hat
2. (colloquial) cap
3. (colloquial) tucker

Declension

Synonyms

• aube

See also

• cepure f
• platmale f

English

Etymology

mouse +? -ery

Noun

mousery (plural mouseries)

1. (rare) A place where mice are kept and bred.
   • 1965, George Washington Corner, A History of the Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Univ. Press, p. 228 (Google preview):

     There was indeed a mousery of vast proportions, far from general view on an upper floor. . . . A member of the Institute's research staff, unaware of its existence and unexpectedly admitted, found himself in a city of mice, thousands of them, elaborately housed and cared for.

Anagrams

• Seymour