(US, historical, colloquial) Pronunciation spelling of missus, representing African-American Vernacular English.

A diminutive of the female given name Melissa.

(informal) A young woman; miss.

plural of missy / plural of missie

A young female, or miss; as a term of mild disparagement, typically used jokingly or rebukingly. / (Singapore, Malaysia) A female nurse.

Girlish; effeminate; sentimental. / Of, or pertaining to, female clothing or clothing sizes.

(mineralogy) Alternative form of misy

(colloquial) Synonym of hit-or-miss.

A state of the United States. / A major river in the United States that flows from north-central Minnesota into the Gulf of Mexico.

Used in a common chronometric counting scheme, in which each iteration is sequentially numbered and supposed to be approximately one second in length.