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missis

Noun

mis=sis

WORDNET DICTIONARY

missis(n = noun.person) missus - informal term of address for someone's wife; Array

is a kind of married woman, wife

missis, n.

A mistress; a wife; -- so used by the illiterate. G. Eliot. [1913 Webster]

missis, n. (also missus) sl. or joc.
1 a form of address to a woman.
2 a wife.

Idiom

the missis my or your wife.

Etymology

corrupt. of MISTRESS: cf. MRS

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