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What does missish mean?

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Adjective
  1. (dated) prim and prudish
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But he should not leave her till he had acquitted her of the vile, missish crime of flirting with another because he was absent.
But I was kind of missish and made him step out onto the terrace.
You are not going to be Missish, I hope, and pretend to be affronted at an idle report.
I looked up at his tormented face, and my missish tendencies were banished, his need for comfort much exceeding my need for proper English conduct.
So please put these missish concerns aside and let's concentrate on finding you a source of food.
There was a maudlin, missish, namby-mamby sentimentality about them which disgusted her.

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