MISSUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does missus mean? 

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

1. informal term of address for someone's wife

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MISSUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Informal term of address for someone's wife

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

missis; missus

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

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

 Context examples 

“You heard the missus say that if she let me off this time I was never to ask again. I must try and make it a good one.”

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I’d have been sooner, but it took me a little time to make it all straight with the missus.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The missus and me can drive down to Crawley in the gig, and a yard of stickin’ plaster and a raw steak will soon set me to rights.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I’d rather you left millin’ alone, Boy Jim, said he, and so had the missus; but if mill you must, it will not be my fault if you cannot hold up your hands to anything in the south country.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)