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Missus

nouncommon in dialogue

Mrs, a form of address for a married woman.

noun

  1. 1

    informalMrs, a form of address for a married woman.

    She [Mary] next went into service on a farm at Welcombe; there was the Boss, the Missus, two young children and Mary, the only servant.

Etymology

Eye dialect of Mrs.

Forms

plural
Missuses
The neighbouring pages — Alphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).