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missy
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun missy has 1 sense
- missy(n = noun.person) fille, girl, miss, young lady, young woman - a young woman; "a young lady of 18" has particulars: babe, baby, sister, belle, bimbo, chachka, tchotchke, tchotchkeleh, tsatske, tshatshke, chit, colleen, bird, chick, dame, doll, skirt, wench, flapper, gal, gamine, gibson girl, jeune fille, lass, lassie, young girl, maid, maiden, may queen, queen of the may, mill-girl, party girl, peri, ring girl, rosebud, sex bomb, sex kitten, sexpot, shop girl, soubrette, sweater girl, hoyden, romp, tomboy, valley girl, working girl
is a kind of adult female, woman
CIDE DICTIONARY
missy, n.
See Misy. [1913 Webster]
missy, n.
An affectionate, or contemptuous, form of miss; a young girl; a miss. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
missy, n. (pl. -ies) an affectionate or derogatory form of address to a young girl.
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