Mississippi
proper nouninterjectionnounnounproper nouncommon in dialogue
- United States//ˌmɪ.sɪˈsɪ.pi//
A state of the United States.
proper noun
- 1
A state of the United States.
Mississippi mud is soaked in black blood / How many more must die?
That’s right. In fact, a law which passed in Mississippi is so restrictive, it could close the one remaining abortion clinic they have in the entire state, meaning a Mississippi woman, right now, could be saying to herself, “I need to go someplace more progressive like Alabama.”
The vote was 213-209 along party lines. Republican members of the House Ethics Committee – Michael Guest of Mississippi, Dave Joyce of Ohio, Andrew Garbarino of New York, John Rutherford of Florida and Michelle Fischbach of Minnesota – voted present. GOP Rep. Ken Buck of Colorado also voted present but he is not on the Ethics Committee.
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A major river in the United States, flowing southward from north-central Minnesota through Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Minnesota and Louisiana, emptying into the Gulf of Mexico.
Etymology
Borrowed from Ojibwe misi-ziibi, ᒥᓯ᐀ᓰᐱ (misi-siipi, “great river”).
interjection
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Used in a common chronometric counting scheme, in which each iteration is sequentially numbered and supposed to equal approximately one second in length.
Any reader who uses the old “One Mississippi, Two Mississippi, etc.” method to estimate distance to a storm, and doesn't get any further than a count of five to eight had better be in a safe shelter.
noun
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A recitation of Mississippi (the interjection).
I counted five Mississippis between each flash of lightning and the thunder crash that followed.
We had lungs like camel bladders by then; we sledged each other mercilessly, each daring the other to break the two-minute limit beneath the diving board. In the summer sea when it was flat-calm and there was nothing else to do but dive down and lie on the clean, ribbed bottom and hold our breaths to count Mississippis we got pretty close to our goal.
noun
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A variant of bagatelle.
proper noun
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A river in Canada that flows from eastern Ontario into the Ottawa River.
Etymology
Although its current spelling may be derived from that of its much larger American cousin, it is most certainly a corruption of a different indigenous name, as the translation “great water” would not apply to a relatively minor tributary of the Ottawa, definitely the largest river in the area. Instead, the name may originate from Mazinaa[bikinigan]-ziibi, Algonquian for “[painted] image river”, referring to the pictographs found on Mazinaw Lake, though this is by no means proven.
Forms
- plural
- Mississippis
Mississippi · A state of the United States.
Missouri · A state in the Midwestern region of the United States.…missus · Wife or girlfriend.Missus · Mrs, a form of address for a married woman.