missish

[mis-ish]

adjective

1. prim; affected; prudish.

Other Word Forms

• missishness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of missish¹

First recorded in 1785–95; miss ² + -ish ¹

Example Sentences

Yet though Lydia could, while taking no editorial trouble whatever, go out of her way to make a silly missish apology for publishing a passage in which her charms and merits are celebrated, she seems never to have given a thought to what she was doing in other ways.

From Project Gutenberg

Missish, mis′ish, adj. prim, affected.—n.

From Project Gutenberg

I just don’t understand why Fox starts each telecast with giant animated robots slamming into each other, but gets missish when two large men go helmet to helmet and yell at each other.

From Washington Post

Nora considered Milla insignificant, egotistic, cold, prim, missish; Milla considered Nora--no, Milla did not consider Nora anything, she let her friends talk and she listened.

From Project Gutenberg

I think I told you that I hated him, and you seemed to smile at my hatred as a sort of missish impertinence and caprice; but what was instinct then has become reason now, and I am strangely mistaken if your hatred would not fully keep pace with mine had you seen and heard what I have done.

From Project Gutenberg