missy n.
1. (also missee, missey, missie) a young girl, esp. as characterized by servants and sometimes derog.
in 12th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. v Appendix 29: A coach fitt for pretty Missee is not to be found ready made [OED]. | ||
Sporting Times 9 June 1/4: Hold on, missie, not all the soda. | ||
Ulysses 700: ...little chits of missies they have now singing Kathleen Kearney and her like. | ||
Battlers 313: Here y’are, Missy? | ||
(con. 1920s–30s) Youngblood (1956) 491: Running smiling sirring mamming seeing-and-not-seeing white missey’s birthday garments. |
2. (US gay) an underage boy.
Queens’ Vernacular 44: any boy under the age of consent [...] missy (camp, kwn LV, mid ’60s: any teenage boy, gay or straight: ‘Hi, missy, wanna come over and have a completely unique experience in depth?’). |
3. (US drugs) cocaine [note cocaine is a ‘feminine’ drug, see girl n.2 ].
Corner (1998) 62: They called it ‘girl’ or ‘Jane’ or ‘Missy’ in feminine contrasts to ‘boy’ or ‘John’ or ‘Mister’ for king heroin. |