- a variation of missis.
missus
Americannoun
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missuses
plural
noun
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informal one's wife or the wife of the person addressed or referred to
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an informal term of address for a woman
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of missus
C19: spoken version of Mistress
Example Sentences
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The monster’s missus comes with as much narrative anticipation as Godot.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2026
"Me and my missus were both jumping around in our flat, it was great times," he remembered.
From BBC ● Nov. 28, 2025
Danny Dyer is back on the big screen with a film about a bloke trying to win back his missus.
From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2025
Like I said, Scholes is my ultimate hero but me and my missus both love Ruud.
From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2024
A mother with a pram will say to other mothers, God above, missus, you must be fagged out carrying that child.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
We lost four sheep last year, and come nigh losing the missuses best cow not long ago.
From Cutlass and Cudgel by J. Schonberg
“Oh,” said the woman sharply, “this is no time far ma’aming and bowing and scraping; servants and missuses is all human beings together when they’re in trouble, and folks don’t make no difference between them.”
From A Double Knot by George Manville Fenn
I'm told the road is black with them--weavers from the Valleys and their missuses, every sort of 'em with a note in his fist!
From Ovington's Bank by Stanley J. Weyman
New missuses don’t generally get on with old servants like us—that’s been in the family 46 for so many years—but when they don’t, it ain’t them as gets notice.”
From The Dust Flower by Hibberd V. B. (Hibberd Van Buren) Kline
I shall be off, he’s sure to be out of temper; masters and missuses are always grumpy when they first get up.
From Three Hats A Farcical Comedy in Three Acts by Arthur Shirley
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