MISSIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does missis mean? 

• MISSIS (noun)
  The noun MISSIS has 1 sense:

1. informal term of address for someone's wife

  Familiarity information: MISSIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MISSIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Informal term of address for someone's wife

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

missis; missus

Hypernyms ("missis" is a kind of...):

married woman; wife (a married woman; a man's partner in marriage)

 Context examples 

“And can you trust your missis?” asked the other.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

He came down to Gateshead about three weeks ago and wanted missis to give up all to him.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Missis Gummidge has worked like a—I doen't know what Missis Gummidge an't worked like, said Mr. Peggotty, looking at her, at a loss for a sufficiently approving simile.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

One of our gard'ners was a-comin' 'ome about that time from a 'armony, when he sees a big grey dog comin' out through the garding 'edges. At least, so he says, but I don't give much for it myself, for if he did 'e never said a word about it to his missis when 'e got 'ome, and it was only after the escape of the wolf was made known, and we had been up all night-a-huntin' of the Park for Bersicker, that he remembered seein' anything.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

If Meg had four, the house wouldn't hold them, and master and missis would have to camp in the garden, broke in Jo, who, enveloped in a big blue pinafore, was giving the last polish to the door handles.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

But my old missis has it all by now.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Missis looks stout and well enough in the face, but I think she's not quite easy in her mind: Mr. John's conduct does not please her—he spends a deal of money.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Missis intends you to leave Gateshead in a day or two, and you shall choose what toys you like to take with you.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Missis refused: her means have long been much reduced by his extravagance; so he went back again, and the next news was that he was dead.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Missis was rather too hard.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)