Meanings
- pluralplural of message
- AustraliaIrelandNew ZealandNorthern EnglandScotlandpluralplural onlyShopping, groceries, or household errands.
I was going up the town to buy some messages.
1983, Raymond McClean, The road to Bloody Sunday, page 1193 more examples
‘Every evening now it’s the same. He gets away with that Charlie Scott and doesn’t come in to do the messages or anything.’
1961, Tom Mead, Killers of Eden, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 14A South African woman, just married to an Irishman and newly arrived in this country, was shocked when her husband told her, "I just saw yer man in the shop when I was getting the messages (groceries)." "My what?" "Yer man. […]"
1987, Pulpsmith, volume 6, page 275A woman with a well-to-do south voice told me to wash my soily hands before touching her messages.
1995, Alan Warner, Morvern Callar, Vintage, published 2015, page 9
- indicativepresentsingularthird personthird-person singular simple present indicative of message
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