Meaning

2 senses
  1. A young female, or miss; as a term of mild disparagement, typically used jokingly or rebukingly.

    That's enough out of you, missy!

    Fräulein

    a young female

  2. (Malaysia, Singapore)A female nurse.

Examples

1 sentences
  1. You're grounded, missy!

Translations

3 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 1
a young female; miss:

Origin

Proto-Germanic *-j-, *-ij-

Proto-Germanic *-j-, *-ij-

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Forms

plural: missies
Singularmissy
Pluralmissies

regular

Synonyms

5 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

1 related words
Derivedmissyish

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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