(also missis) noun (becoming old-fashioned)
1 (informal, spoken) (used after 'the', 'my', 'your', 'his') a man's wife:
How's the missus (= your wife)? * My missus won't let me smoke in the house.
2 (slang, especially BrE) used by some people as a form of address to a woman whose name they do not know:
Is this your bag, missus?
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for missus is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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