missus

noun

1. (Australia, New-Zealand, UK, colloquial)Wife or girlfriend.

   “Harry said he couldn't stop and chat because his missus wanted to go shopping.”

   “The missus has a list of chores for me to do this weekend.”

   “I thought there might be trouble with the missus if I engaged a one-time murderer as nursemaid.”

   “Sometimes I find myself sitting back and reminiscing / Especially when I have to watch other people kissing / And I remember when you started calling me your missus / All the play fighting, all the flirtatious disses”

   “Imagine you have driven past a restaurant and thought to yourself, 'That would be a nice place to take the missus for an evening out,' and in no time at all you have found yourself flicking through the Yellow Pages in search of the phonenumber.”

2. (Australia, New-Zealand, UK, colloquial)Term of address for a woman.

   “'Scuse me missus, but your petticoat's showing.”

   “Look ere Missus! Little Joey's me bruvva. E stays wiv me. We aint goin ter be split up.”

3. (informal)Mrs, a form of address for a married woman.

   “She [Mary] next went into service on a farm at Welcombe; there was the Boss, the Missus, two young children and Mary, the only servant.”