Did you mean Mister?
Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. Title conferred on an adult male.
- n. Someone's business or function; an occupation, employment, trade.
- n. A kind, type of.
- n. Need (of something).
- n. Necessity; the necessary time.
- n. A device that makes or sprays mist.
- v. To be necessary; to matter.
Etymologies
- Alteration of master.
Examples
“The word mister, as a prefix, or the word esquire, as a suffix, seemed a superfluity.”
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“The word mister sounded sharply, yet not unpleasingly, to my ear: it was the first time I had been so designated or so dignified.”
“Princess, Captain Falk's unwarrantable insult to Davie Paine -- it seems incongruous to call him "mister" -- was to play its part later in events that as yet were only gathering way.”
“No, not 'mister' -- just 'Jan,'" he answered, adopting her pronunciation.”
“He’s the only trustee I called mister, but just because he was formal didn’t mean he wasn’t human.”
“I'm not able to get through right away so I take a breath and call the mister and do my best to let him know that I still have all my digits but there is a lot of blurd and I want to be sure so can he come home and gimme a ride?”
“The mister was a tanker with the 3/64 at Conn, but he spent a lot of time at Ledward working in the post office.”
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“The mister was an Italian cloth merchant living in Bruges, in what is now Belgium.”
“Another tool I used tonight is called a mister: put in your own olive oil and spray -- all to use less oil.”
“He explains, "There is a double play on the word mister - it says 'we are not that formal”
bilby In Italian, mister means the coach of a sporting team, particularly in soccer/football parlance. Nov 23, 2007