missis
Americannoun
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Older Use. wife.
I'll have to ask the missis.
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the mistress of a household.
noun
Etymology
Origin of missis
First recorded in 1780–90; variant of mistress
Example Sentences
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The headline reads, “Piping the Aldi mayo into the same Hellman’s bottle we’ve had for a year so the missis will not know she’s a commoner.”
From Fox News • Sep. 24, 2019
“This is when I started driving the missis crazy, because I knew what I wanted to be when I grew up,” Dupre said.
From Washington Times • Jun. 7, 2014
Yep, he and the missis were planning to take a vacation.
From Time Magazine Archive
‘It’s no good going across, for you won’t find the missis there,’ he said.
From Luck at the Diamond Fields by Belgrave, Dalrymple J.
They ought to keep a nurse, but they can't afford it, missis says; and I'm sure I'm nothing but a slave.
From The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant by Wilson, Alexander Johnstone
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