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missis en · NOUN

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1. (US, alt-of, colloquial, historical, pronunciation-spelling) Pronunciation spelling of missus, representing African-American Vernacular English.
   alt of missus
   alt of representing African-American Vernacular English
   • 1878, quoted 2001, from a song by James Bland, an African American songwriter for minstrel shows, "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny", The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: North America. Garland Publishing. Ellen Koskoff (Ed.). p. 192. Massa and missis have lone gone before me.
2. (UK, alt-of, alternative, colloquial, pronunciation-spelling) Alternative spelling or pronunciation spelling of missus.
   alt of missus
   • A man said he'd give me five pounds if I'd paint him and his missis and the dog and the cottage. 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “Passion”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC, part II, page 341:

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