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Definition of Missus
1. Noun. Informal term of address for someone's wife.
Definition of Missus
1. Proper noun. (informal) Mrs, a form of address for a married woman. ¹
2. Noun. Wife. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Missus
1. missis [n -ES] - See also: missis
Lexicographical Neighbors of Missus
Literary usage of Missus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs ...by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1889)
"Mr. Payne abused my Poor missus, and dared her to do anything of that sort, and
so we were feared to do it» '. lest I should be pulled up again afore the ..."
2. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs ...by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1881)
"missus was very bad, to, then, but as we knowd twere no use to ask the Union for
nothink cept we'd all go into the Workhouse, and which Mi-»U6 couldn'ta ..."
3. Report of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction, at the First Session by William Pitt Fessenden, Thaddeus Stevens (1866)
"'Ah, missus, I don' know—don' know as I is free.' "Just at that moment one of
the officials who accompanied us саше up. As the negro caught sight of the ..."
4. Works by James Fenimore Cooper (1892)
"The appeal shocked even the rude beings around her, and Biddy chiming in with a
powerful appeal to " save the missus !" added to the piteous nature of the ..."
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