missus
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The monster’s missus comes with as much narrative anticipation as Godot.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2026
"I stood in the kitchen and my missus said to me, 'Hey Usman, I've never seen you look like this before', and I just burst into tears."
From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2026
I always say to my missus or to my parents and brother: 'I don't need anything.
From BBC ● Feb. 7, 2026
"Just then, Prince Andrei rocked up to Anna's joint. He was the pregnant sheila's hubby. Like his missus, he was pretty good looking himself."
From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2025
“I was just waiting until the missus was done with the ladder,” he explained gruffly.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
“Oh,” said the woman sharply, “this is no time far ma’aming and bowing and scraping; servants and missuses is all human beings together when they’re in trouble, and folks don’t make no difference between them.”
From A Double Knot by George Manville Fenn
New missuses don’t generally get on with old servants like us—that’s been in the family 46 for so many years—but when they don’t, it ain’t them as gets notice.”
From The Dust Flower by Hibberd V. B. (Hibberd Van Buren) Kline
In rushed a host of peelers, With a sergeant at the head, Jaggard to every kitchen known, Of missuses the dread.
From Cambridge Pieces by Samuel Butler
All which Crabstick knew, and would often declare her missus to be "of all missuses the most slyest and least come-at-able."
From The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope
My wife and daughter are timid, and the servant-girl takes after her missuses.
From The Queen of Hearts by Wilkie Collins
