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
"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
"We are looking forward to doing it. I said I would go up to £50,000 and my missus said 'oh just put a little extra'," he added.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2024
“The missus likes being difficult, methinks,” she’d said, her accent so thick that Ophie had barely understood her.
From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland
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
There are many skippers' missuses, but only one mother of Georgina, Jane, and Cornelius James.
From A Tall Ship On Other Naval Occasions by Bartimeus
“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
I'm told the road is black with them--weavers from the Valleys and their missuses, every sort of 'em with a note in his fist!
From Ovington's Bank by Stanley J. Weyman
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
