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messages

nounnounverbcommon in dialogue

  • //ˈmɛs.ɪ.d͡ʒɪz//

Shopping, groceries, errands.

noun

  1. 1

    Also a form of messageplural of message

noun

  1. 1

    Shopping, groceries, errands.

    I was going up the town to buy some messages.

    A South African woman, just married to an Irishman and newly arrived in this country, was shocked when her husband told her, "I just saw yer man in the shop when I was getting the messages (groceries)." "My what?" "Yer man. […]"

    A woman with a well-to-do south voice told me to wash my soily hands before touching her messages.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of messagethird-person singular simple present indicative of message

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).