Usually means: Affectedly modest, prim, or demure.
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  1. missish: Merriam-Webster
  2. missish: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. missish: Collins English Dictionary
  4. missish: Wordnik
  5. missish: Wiktionary
  6. missish: Infoplease Dictionary
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  8. Missish: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. missish: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. Missish: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. missish: FreeDictionary.org
  12. Missish: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Missish: Legal dictionary

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  1. Missish: Medical dictionary

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  1. Missish: Idioms
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▸ adjective:  (dated) prim and prudish

Similar:
missyish, maidish, old-maidish, prude, Prissy, quaint, nice-Nelly, prim, pearl-clutching, straight-laced, more...

Opposite:
masculine, tomboyish, unfeminine

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Similar:
missyish, maidish, old-maidish, prude, Prissy, quaint, nice-Nelly, prim, pearl-clutching, straight-laced, more...

Opposite:
masculine, tomboyish, unfeminine



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