mistering

Verb (1)

mister (third-person singular simple present misters, present participle mistering, simple past and past participle mistered)

1. (ambitransitive) To address by the title of "mister".
   • “Hush! hush! Mr. Sikes,” said the Jew, trembling; “don’t speak so loud!”
     “None of your mistering,” replied the ruffian; “you always mean mischief when you come that. You know my name: out with it! I shan’t disgrace it when the time comes.”1837-39, Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

Verb (2)

mister (third-person singular simple present misters, present participle mistering, simple past and past participle mistered)

1. (impersonal, obsolete) To be necessary; to matter.
   • As for my name, it mistreth not to tell;
     Call me the Squyre of Dames that me beseemeth well.1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.vii

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