missish

[ mis-ish ]

adjective

1. prim; affected; prudish.

Other Words From

• missish·ness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of missish¹

First recorded in 1785–95; miss ² + -ish ¹

Example Sentences

You are not going to be missish, I hope, and pretend to be affronted at an idle report.

From Literature

Yet though Lydia could, while taking no editorial trouble whatever, go out of her way to make a silly missish apology for publishing a passage in which her charms and merits are celebrated, she seems never to have given a thought to what she was doing in other ways.

From Project Gutenberg

Missish, mis′ish, adj. prim, affected.—n.

From Project Gutenberg

I just don’t understand why Fox starts each telecast with giant animated robots slamming into each other, but gets missish when two large men go helmet to helmet and yell at each other.

From Washington Post

Nora considered Milla insignificant, egotistic, cold, prim, missish; Milla considered Nora--no, Milla did not consider Nora anything, she let her friends talk and she listened.

From Project Gutenberg