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mistressy

mistressy adjective: resembling or characteristic of a mistress.

Adjective

mistressy (comparative more mistressy, superlative most mistressy)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a mistress.
    • ‘Rubbish, I said I’ve no use for it,’ replied Charmian in her most mistressy voice.1956, Anne Francis [pseudonym; Anne Wintle], Paulette, London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd, page 38
    • Her mistressy voice, now urgent and straining, now clucking and scolding, now anxiously explaining, thinking in English, translating to itself first into Sepedi, begging, stressing, arguing, repeating, repeating, repeating – that restless voice tinkled into my consciousness, bringing me back.a. 1968, Can Themba, The Will to Die, Heinemann, published 1972, reprinted 1976, →ISBN, page 22

Examples of mistressy in a sentence

  • She usually reports in her mistressy way that I steep my mind in violence–yes, steep–that my temper is fiendish, and that my bite is worse than my bark.1969, Michael Ramsbotham, The Remains of a Father, New York, N.Y.: Atheneum, →LCCN, pages 146–147:
  • When the parlourmaid came, she said in an altered, mistressy voice: ‘Find Miss Rhoda, Edith.1970, Patrick White, The Vivisector, London: Jonathan Cape, […], →ISBN, page 34:
  • And I’ll bet he and that Rachel woman—she needn’t think she’s off the hook, she’s got that sly, mistressy look about her—have invited people I’ve been carefully snubbing for years.2003, Anna Maxted, Behaving Like Adults, ReganBooks, →ISBN, pages 360–361:
  • Claudia gave her an irritated mistressy look.2006, Philip Boast, The Third Princess, Severn House Publishers, →ISBN, page 130:

Forms of mistressy

comparativemore mistressy
superlativemost mistressy

Origin of mistressy

From mistress + -y.

Questions about mistressy

What does mistressy mean?
Mistressy means resembling or characteristic of a mistress.
How do you use mistressy in a sentence?
She usually reports in her mistressy way that I steep my mind in violence–yes, steep–that my temper is fiendish, and that my bite is worse than my bark.
What part of speech is mistressy?
Mistressy is an adjective.

Words near mistressy in the dictionary

  1. mistressminds
  2. mistresspiece
  3. mistresspieces
  4. mistressship
  5. mistressships
  6. mistressy
  7. Mistretta
  8. Mistrettas
  9. mistrial
  10. mistrials
  11. mistried

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