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Missy

Missy \Mis"sy\, n. (Min.) See Misy.

Missy

Missy \Mis"sy\, n. An affectionate, or contemptuous, form of miss; a young girl; a miss. -- a. Like a miss, or girl.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
missy

"young girl," 1670s, playful form of miss (n.2), chiefly among servants at first.

Wiktionary
missy

Etymology 1 a. Of, or pertaining to, female clothing or clothing sizes. n. A young female; miss. Etymology 2

n. (context mineralogy English) (alternative form of misy English)

WordNet
missy

n. a young woman; "a young lady of 18" [syn: girl, miss, young lady, young woman, fille]

Wikipedia
Missy

Missy is a feminine first name, often a short form of Melissa.

People named Missy include:

  • Michele Avila (1968-1985), American murder victim
  • Missy Cummings, Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and former U.S. Navy fighter pilot
  • Missy Elliott (born 1971), American rapper, singer, songwriter and record producer
  • Missy Giove (born 1972), American former professional mountain bike rider
  • Missy Gold (born 1970), American former child actress
  • Missy Franklin (born 1995), American competitive swimmer
  • Missy Higgins (born 1983), Australian singer and songwriter
  • Missy LeHand (1898–1944), longtime private secretary to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Missy Malone, British burlesque performer
  • Missy Mazzoli (born 1980), American composer and pianist
  • Missy Peregrym, Canadian actress
  • Missy Raines (born 1962), American bluegrass bassist
  • Missy Robbins (born 1971), American chef
  • Missy Schwen-Ryan (born 1972), American rower
  • Missy (actress), American pornographic actress
  • Missy Hyatt (born 1963), an American professional wrestling valet
  • Missy (short for The Mistress), a female incarnation of villain The Master from the British science fiction series Doctor Who
Missy (actress)

Missy (September 24, 1967 – August 13, 2008) was an American pornographic actress.

Missy (cow)

Missy is a Holstein cow that in 2009 became the then-current most expensive cow in the world, auctioned for $1.2 million.

Missy is a three-year-old black and white Holstein cow from Canada that sold for 1.2 million dollars at the Morsan Road to the Royal Sale in Uxbridge, Ontario on Wednesday, November 11, 2009. This purchase has made Missy the current most expensive cow in the world. She was the fifth cow in the world and the second in Canada to have been sold for over 1 million dollars. Her prior owner and breeder Bloyce Thompson of Eastside Holsteins stated that "She's the most valuable young cow in the world right now [and] is one of the top show cows in North America". She was also the Grand Champion of the 2009 Western Fall National Show.

In 2011, Missy was named Supreme Grand Champion Of All Breeds at the World Dairy Expo in Madison, Wisconsin.

Listed as Lot #1 she was sold to a Denmark buyer. Her genetic material will now be used to help improve the breeding of the Holstein breed.

Missy (disambiguation)

Missy is a feminine first name.

Missy or missy may also refer to:

People:

  • César de Missy (1703–1775), Prussian theologian, chaplain to King George III, New Testament scholar and book collector
  • Jean Rousset de Missy (1686–1762), French Huguenot writer, historian and journalist
  • Samuel de Missy (1755-1820), French trader and businessman

Animals:

  • Missy (cow), the most expensive cow in the world

Fictional characters:

  • Missy (Doctor Who), a female incarnation of the character The Master in Doctor Who, a short form of The Mistress

Places:

  • Missy, Calvados, a commune in the Calvados département, France
  • Missy, Switzerland, a municipality in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland

Other uses

  • A variant of the title Miss, used to describe a young or never-married woman

Usage examples of "missy".

Well Missy, I was borned a slave, nigh on to ninety years ago, right down here at Cedar Creek, in Fairfield County.

Our best messenger dog was Missy, a white German Shepherd that came to us in the original shipment of dogs we got from the Army.

This was fine for most of the dogs, but Missy had been trained as a messenger dog for more than two years, and her genius was as a messenger.

She could go back to The Forks of Cypress and beg some shelter at least, from Jass, or Missy Sally, or she could go on.

Er waren genoeg voorbeelden uit het verleden van gecombineerde missies en het leek voor de hand te liggen om mensen uit heel verschillende disciplines mee te nemen, maar generale overste Da Silva had zich ten slotte vooral laten leiden door wat hij als de wil van God beschouwde.

Guiding Missy along, he closed the sugarhouse door on shelves that were neatly lined with new tins of syrup.

Missy and Star were home with Micah, all three well fed by the beef stew that Maida had brought Poppy, which Poppy had quickly divvied up and delivered to Micah along with the girls, and there was Griffin, who had helped Micah all day and was now badly in need of a shower and food.

Missy Gunther, her hair freshly set and lacquered, did not need an introduction-she knew exactly who Mike Ainsel was.

Not the most exciting newspaper in the world, but truth to tell Missy Gunther thought that was probably the way most folk around here liked it.

He unpacked his shopping, put the food into the cupboards and the fridge, and then he opened the envelope Missy Gunther had given him.

A wave of iron-shafted missies arced into the blue-green sky and dropped into the long column.

Debbie might have gotten her degree in Elementary Education and taught until Missy was born, but running their rentals for the past several years had given her the same set of hard-headed business rules he had.

Missy accepted, hoping to light a fire under Bony, but she only managed to push him farther away.

The constrained looks of the governess and the student were unpleasant, too, but most unpleasant of all was the pronoun HIM that Missy had used.

Missy and Osten also remained in the refreshment-room and were about to sit down, when they saw an acquaintance in the doorway, and went up to her.