missy
Americannoun
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missies
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noun
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“See here missy, we can’t take the case and that’s that!”
From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2013
The young missy demanding her steel horse of the sky is Juliette, the Swift-alike who's desperate to get a divorce from Sean, whom she married, like, 10 minutes ago.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 18, 2013
I’ll bet that’s not all that’s going to be brought under control, missy.
From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2012
Bet you're not so high and mighty now, missy!
From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2011
“Arr, you’m looken more ’andsome in this loight, missy!
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
The United States, South Korea, Japan and others issued a joint statement condemning the missies transfer.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 11, 2024
Well, well, 'tis a long tramp back to Owston: so here's wishing you good night, missies all.
From Hetty Wesley by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
So when our little missies went to school dey come home an' larnt Celia how to read an' write.
From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 3 by Work Projects Administration
He himself plays the heroic parts; a spindle-shanked, barber's apprentice sort of fellow, takes the aged father parts; and there's a matron, well advanced in years, who acts the young missies.
From A Hungarian Nabob by R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet) Bain
“Yes, they be the missies, and dear little things they be.”
From Betty Vivian A Story of Haddo Court School by L. T. Meade
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