Missis

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  • noun. undefined
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Mistress: a contracted form in colloquial or provincial use. The word thus contracted is spelled out chiefly in representations of vulgar speech; but as a title it is in universal spoken use in the form *missess or rather misses (mis′ ez), and is almost invariably written Mrs. See mistress.
  • noun. A wife.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A mistress; a wife; -- so used by the illiterate.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Alternative spelling of missus.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. informal term of address for someone's wife
  • Word Usage
    "If Grover wasn't so stand-offish, we might tell her about it, and she could tell the Saint -- that's what we call the missis; the Saint would soon put a stop to all that nonsense."
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    Missie  bery  boro  bullfrog  debil  
    Synonym
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    mistress  wife