Definitions for missish

missish miss·ish

Spelling: [mis-ish]
IPA: /ˈmɪs ɪʃ/

Missish is a 7 letter English word.

You can make 44 anagrams from letters in missish (hiimsss).

Definitions for missish

adjective

  1. prim; affected; prudish.

Origin of missish

First recorded in 1785-95; miss2 + -ish1

Examples for missish

You are not going to be missish, I hope, and pretend to be affronted at an idle report.

La jeune fille, bien élevèe, in France is so missish and afraid to speak out to a man.

There was a maudlin, missish, namby-mamby sentimentality about them which disgusted her.

And I was so proud of my own strength; so sure that I should never be missish, and spoony, and sentimental!

You are not going to be missish, I hope, and pretend to be affronted at an idle report.

But it seemed stiff and "missish" to refuse—she must do now as his world did.

But he should not leave her till he had acquitted her of the vile, missish crime of flirting with another because he was absent.

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