missishness
/ˈmɪsɪʃnɪs/noun
Affected primness or coyness, genteelness, sentimentality.
Origin
Mid 19th century; earliest use found in Theodore Hook (1788–1841), writer and hoaxer. From missish + -ness.
- pre-package
- pre-packer
- prepaid
- pre-Palaeolithic
- prepalatal
- prepalatine
- pre-Paleolithic
- preparable
- preparate
- preparation
- preparation day
- preparationism
- preparationist
- preparation sermon
- preparative
- preparatively
- preparative meeting
- preparator
- mechoacanna
- mecholyl
- mecillinam
- Meckel
- Meckelian
- Meckelian cartilage
- Meckel's ganglion