missuses
- plural of missus.
Example Sentences
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There are many skippers' missuses, but only one mother of Georgina, Jane, and Cornelius James.
From A Tall Ship On Other Naval Occasions by Bartimeus
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 Kline, Hibberd V. B. (Hibberd Van Buren)
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 Shirley, Arthur
That's always the way, Miss, I've noticed, when missuses was o' mind to get claar of payin' the honest dues.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859 by Various
We lost four sheep last year, and come nigh losing the missuses best cow not long ago.
From Cutlass and Cudgel by Schonberg, J.
