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missus

/ˈmɪs.əz/

missus noun: wife or girlfriend.

Noun (1)

missus (plural missuses)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand, UK, colloquial) Wife or girlfriend.
    • Harry said he couldn't stop and chat because his missus wanted to go shopping.
    • The missus has a list of chores for me to do this weekend.
  2. (Australia, New Zealand, UK, colloquial) Term of address for a woman.
    • 'Scuse me missus, but your petticoat's showing.
    • Look ere Missus! Little Joey's me bruvva. E stays wiv me. We aint goin ter be split up.2013, C. S. Peters, On a Wing and a Prayer, page 161

Noun (2) capitalized: Missus

Missus (plural Missuses)

  1. (informal) Mrs, 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.1985, Mary Bouquet, Family, Servants and Visitors: The Farm Household in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Devon, Norwich, Norfolk: Geo Books, →ISBN, page 77

missus meaning in Hindi and Urdu

missus in Hindi

missus, Mrs
मिसेज़ misez

missus in Urdu

بیوی

Examples of missus in a sentence

  • All right, mate, how are things with you and the missus?
  • I can't stay too late at the pub, otherwise I'll get a load of earache from the missus.
  • I didn't get home until two in the morning, and me missus got herself into a right two and eight over it!

All 15 example sentences with missus

Synonyms of missus

Forms of missus

pluralmissuses
alternative formmissis
pluralMissuses
alternative formMissis

Origin of missus

Representing a common pronunciation of Mrs, a reduced form of Mistress.

Eye dialect of Mrs.

Words formed from missus

Questions about missus

What does missus mean?
Missus means wife or girlfriend.
What is missus in Hindi?
Missus in Hindi is मिसेज़ (misez). See Missus meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is missus?
Missus is a noun.
How do you pronounce missus?
Missus is pronounced /ˈmɪs.əz/.
What is the plural of missus?
The plural of missus is missuses.

Words near missus in the dictionary

  1. missuppositions
  2. missurvey
  3. missurveyed
  4. missurveying
  5. missurveys
  6. missus
  7. Missus President
  8. missuses
  9. missuspect
  10. missuspected
  11. missuspecting

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: missus (page history and authors); Missus (page history and authors); मिसेज़ (Hindi) (page history and authors); missus (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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