Representing a typical pronunciation ofMrs, a corrupted form ofMistress.
missus (pluralmissuses)
- (colloquial)Wife orgirlfriend.
Harry said he couldn't stop and chat because hismissus wanted to go shopping.
Themissus has a list of chores for me to do this weekend.
2006, “Littlest Things”, inAlright, Still, performed by Lily Allen:Sometimes I find myself sitting back and reminiscing / Especially when I have to watch other people kissing / And I remember when you started calling me yourmissus / All the play fighting, all the flirtatious disses
2013, Jeff Jenkins,Watching The World, Andrews UK Limited,→ISBN:Imagine you have driven past a restaurant and thought to yourself, 'That would be a nice place to take themissus for an evening out,' and in no time at all you have found yourself flicking through the Yellow Pages in search of the phonenumber.
- (colloquial)Term of address for a woman.
'Scuse memissus, but your petticoat's showing.
2013, C. S. Peters,On a Wing and a Prayer, page161:Look ereMissus! Little Joey's me bruvva. E stays wiv me. We aint goin ter be split up.
The "wife or girlfriend" sense is most commonly used in phrases such as "the missus" (normally meaning the speaker's wife) or "my/his/Bill's missus". Traditionally, "missus" refers only to someone's wife. More recently, it has come to be used by some people also to refer to a girlfriend.
mittō(“to send, to shoot, to let”) +-tus.
missus m (genitivemissūs);fourth declension
- asending,dispatching
- athrowing,hurling,cast,shot
- (in the public games) around
- (of a meal) acourse
Fourth-declension noun.
Perfect passive participle ofmittō(“send, dispatch”)
missus (femininemissa,neutermissum);first/second-declension participle
- sent, having been sent,caused to go, having been caused to go
- 4th century,St Jerome,Vulgate,Tobit 3:25
etmissus est angelus Domini sanctus Rafahel ut curaret ambos quorum uno tempore fuerat oratio in conspectu Domini recitata- And the holy angel of the Lord, Raphael wassent to heal them both, whose prayers at one time were rehearsed in the sight of the Lord.
- let go, having been let go,released, having been released,discharged, having been discharged
- thrown, having been thrown,hurled, having been hurled,cast, having been cast,launched, having been launched
- sent out, having been sent out,emitted, having been emitted
- uttered, having been uttered
- dismissed, having been dismissed,disregarded, having been disregarded
- put to anend, having been put to an end
First/second-declension adjective.
- “missus”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “missus”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "missus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- missus inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894)Latin Phrase-Book[1], London:Macmillan and Co.
- to speak without circumlocution:missis ambagibus dicere
- correspondence:litterae missae et allatae
- (ambiguous) a letter to Atticus:epistula ad Atticum data, scripta, missa orquae ad A. scripta est
