Mishmi
/ˈmɪʃmi/noun
1A member of a hill-dwelling people inhabiting Arunachal Pradesh and parts of Assam in north-eastern India.
2Any of a number of Tibeto-Burman languages of the Mishmis.
Origin
Early 19th century; earliest use found in Asiatic Research. From Assamese Mishmi, of uncertain origin.
- sticks and stones may break my bones but names (or words) will never hurt me
- stickseed
- stick shift
- stick someone/thing up
- stick something on
- stick to
- stick together
- stick-to-it-iveness
- stick to one's guns
- stick to one's ribs
- stick to the (or one's) knitting
- stickum
- stick-up
- stick up for
- stickweed
- stick with
- sticky
- stickybeak
- sticky bomb
- sticky bun
- sticky catchfly
- sticky dog
- sticky end
- sticky-fingered
- sticky fingers