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English
Etymology
From miss + -ish.
Adjective
missish (comparative more missish, superlative most missish)
- (dated) prim and prudish
1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter XV, in Pride and Prejudice: , volume III, London: for T Egerton, , →OCLC, page 267:You are not going to be Missish, I hope, and pretend to be affronted at an idle report.