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mistah

mistah is the pronunciation spelling of mister.

Meaning of mister

Noun (1)

mister (plural misters)

  1. Alternative spelling of Mister, especially when used as a form of address without a name.
    • You may sit here, mister.
  2. A man.
    • There are too many misters and not enough sisters up in this club tonight, for my taste.

Noun (2)

mister (plural misters)

  1. (obsolete) Someone's business or function; an occupation, employment, trade.
  2. (archaic, dialectal) A kind, type of.
    • The Redcrosse knight toward him crossed fast,
      To weet, what mister wight was so dismayd[…].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  3. (obsolete) Need (of something).
    • He is richt gude, Ane man of wealth and nobill blude, Bot hes mair mister of ane Hude.1603, Ane verie excellent and delectabill treatise intitulit Philotus
  4. (obsolete) Necessity; the necessary time.
    • That the portis be mendytt and lokit and reformit as mister is.1543, John Stuart, Extracts from the Council Register of the Burgh of Aberdeen

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Forms of mistah

pluralmistahs

Questions about mistah

What is mistah the pronunciation spelling of?
Mistah is the pronunciation spelling of mister.

Words near mistah in the dictionary

  1. mistag
  2. mistagged
  3. mistagging
  4. mistaggings
  5. mistags
  6. mistah
  7. mistahs
  8. mistailored
  9. mistakability
  10. mistakable
  11. mistakably

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