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Webster 1913 Edition
Missis
Mis′sis
,Noun.
A mistress; a wife; – so used by the illiterate.
G. Eliot.
Definition 2024
missis
missis
English
Noun
missis (plural missises)
- (US, historical, colloquial) Eye dialect spelling of missus, representing African American Vernacular English.
- From a song by James Bland, an African American songwriter for minstrel shows, "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny" (1878); quoted in 2001. The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: North America. Garland Publishing. Ellen Koskoff (Ed.). Pg. 192.
- Massa and missis have lone gone before me.
- From a song by James Bland, an African American songwriter for minstrel shows, "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny" (1878); quoted in 2001. The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: North America. Garland Publishing. Ellen Koskoff (Ed.). Pg. 192.