missie
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English
Etymology
Noun
missie (plural missies)
- (informal) A young woman; miss.
- An' that's why they took me, missie, that's why they took me.'
- 1952, C. S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader:
- "Well, then, to put it in a nutshell," said the Chief Voice, "we've been waiting for ever so long for a nice little girl from foreign parts, like it might be you, Missie—that would go upstairs and go to the magic book and find the spell that takes off the invisibleness, and say it. […] "
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Etymology
From Dutch missie, from French mission, Old French mission, from Latin missiō. Cognate to Indonesian misi.
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Noun
missie (plural missies)
Dutch
Etymology
From French mission (“a sending, a mission”), Old French mission (“expense”), from Latin missiō (“a sending, sending away, dispatching, discharging, release, remission, cessation”), from mittō (“to send”).
Pronunciation
Noun
missie f (plural missies or missiën, diminutive missietje n)
- mission, task
- (Roman Catholicism) mission (proselytisation)
- Synonym: zending