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.
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I thought there might be trouble with the missus if I engaged a one-time murderer as nursemaid.1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 208:
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 disses2006, “Littlest Things”, in Alright, Still, performed by Lily Allen:
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.2013, Jeff Jenkins, Watching The World, Andrews UK Limited, →ISBN:
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.1985, Mary Bouquet, Family, Servants and Visitors: The Farm Household in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Devon, Norwich, Norfolk: Geo Books, →ISBN, page 77: