variants:
or missis
Definition of missus
1
informal + old-fashioned
: wife
… everybody knew Mr. Levov and everybody asked after the missus and the boys.— Philip Roth
2
British, informal
—used to address a woman whose name is not known
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The first known use of missus was in 1790
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