mice

Meanings

noun

pluralplural of mouse

verbmice (third-person singular simple present mices, present participle micing, simple past and past participle miced)

present singular third person mices · participle present micing · participle past miced · past miced

BermudaTo be distracted or inattentive (possibly alluding to a cat being distracted by a mouse).
That cat's mysin, he doesn't see the dog coming.
1984, Peter A. Smith, Fred M. Barritt, Bermewjan Vurds, Island Press
1 more example
A breakfast diner might describe an incident with someone who was "not too tightly wrapped". Or not wanting to waste time on someone who was always "micin". Another breakfast guest might explode with "what'chu mean?", only to be told half-jokingly, “Bie ... shut yor mouth”.
2015 December 9, Jack Gauntlett, “Bermudian sayings always raise a smile”, in The Royal Gazette, archived from the original on 11 Dec 2022

Origin

Proto-Germanic*mūs“mouse”
Proto-Germanic*mūsiz“mice”
Old Englishmȳs“mice”
Middle Englishmys
Englishmice

From Middle English mys, mice, muis, mise, mis, from Old English mȳs (“mice”), from an umlauted form of Proto-Germanic *mūsiz (“mice”), nominative and vocative plural of Proto-Germanic *mūs (“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.