missuses

On being asked who they were, they repeated that they were the "missuses" of the white soldiers.

My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War P. [Illustrator] Van Breda 1892

Lots of them very good men, very glad to go back to the missus and the kids; some of them might be blackguards; might have had several missuses; or even murdered several missuses.

The Complete Father Brown 2003

Lots of them very good men, very glad to go back to the missus and the kids; some of them might be blackguards; might have had several missuses; or even murdered several missuses.

The Complete Father Brown 2003

Collumpsion's mind, and long before the winded and saturated servant could detail the horrors he had witnessed in "his missuses best bed-room, in No. 25," the bewildered proprietor of No. 24 was franticly shaking his innocently offending menials on the leads of his own establishment.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, September 25, 1841 Various

There are many skippers 'missuses, but only one mother of Georgina,

A Tall Ship On Other Naval Occasions 1886-1967 Bartimeus 1926

My wife and daughter are timid, and the servant girl takes after her missuses.

The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Modern English Egerton Castle 1889

I shall be off, he's sure to be out of temper; masters and missuses are always grumpy when they first get up.

Three Hats A Farcical Comedy in Three Acts Arthur Shirley 1889

All which Crabstick knew, and would often declare her missus to be “of all missuses the most slyest and least come-at-able.”

The Eustace Diamonds 1873

All which Crabstick knew, and would often declare her missus to be "of all missuses the most slyest and least come-at-able."

The Eustace Diamonds Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882 1872

If we capsized yew we should capsize ourselves too, and what's more, our missuses at home, and that wouldn't do.

To The West George Manville Fenn 1870