missie

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noun

A young woman; miss.

“An' that's why they took me, missie, that's why they took me.' Perspectives: A Course in Narrative Comprehension and Composition By Cecil Gray”

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Meanings

nounmissie (plural missies)

plural missies

  1. informalA young woman; miss.

    An' that's why they took me, missie, that's why they took me.' Perspectives: A Course in Narrative Comprehension and Composition By Cecil Gray

    1 more example

    "Well, then, to put it in a nutshell," said the Chief Voice, "we've been waiting for ever so long for a nice little girl from foreign parts, like it might be you, Missie—that would go upstairs and go to the magic book and find the spell that takes off the invisibleness, and say it. […]"

    1952, C. S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

Origin

From miss + -ie.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

Issime
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APA

missie. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/missie

MLA

“missie.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/missie. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “missie,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/missie.

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