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missish

missish adjective: prim and prudish.

Adjective

missish (comparative more missish, superlative most missish)

  1. (dated) Prim and prudish.
    • You are not going to be Missish, I hope, and pretend to be affronted at an idle report.1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter XV, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume III, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 267

Forms of missish

comparativemore missish
superlativemost missish

Origin of missish

From miss + -ish.

Words formed from missish

Questions about missish

What does missish mean?
Missish means prim and prudish.
What part of speech is missish?
Missish is an adjective.

Words near missish in the dictionary

  1. Missiquoi
  2. missis
  3. Missisauga
  4. Missisaugas
  5. missises
  6. missish
  7. missishly
  8. missishness
  9. Mississauga
  10. Mississaugan
  11. Mississaugans

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