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missy

[mis-ee]

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noun, plural miss·ies. Informal.

young miss; girl.

Origin:
1670–80; miss² + -y²

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missy (ˈmɪsɪ)

—n , pl missies
	informal an affectionate or sometimes disparaging form of address to a young girl

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missy

playful form of miss (n.), chiefly among servants, first attested 1670s.

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"We're headed for collapse, if you want my opinion, Missy. I can see it in the fallin' off of the quality of vagrants. There was a time you could find real good company in almost any jungle you'd pick, men who could talk, men who'd read a book now and then; and now, what do you find, a lot of dirty little guttersnipes no decent tramp would want to associate with.
Well, it's been that way all through history."

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