The phrase "a missy" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used informally to refer to a young girl or a woman, often in a playful or affectionate manner.
Example: "Look at that little missy playing in the park, she seems to be having a great time."
Alternatives: "a young lady" or "a girl".
The cashing of a cheque turns into a Missy Elliott video.
Does it need its own postcode, or a cameo in a Missy Elliott video?
She abandons them in favour of a Missy Elliott cover, a toe-curlingly awful, squeaky hip-hop medley, and repeatedly desperate shouts of "Manchestahh".
Even Michael Bastian's runway had a Missy Rayder sighting, in jeans and an unbuttoned plaid shirt that was a little too unbuttoned, which was the only thing that was really irksome about his otherwise entertaining show.
There are so many bootlegs using Eminem and Missy Elliott songs (Missy mixed with the 80's group the Cure, Eminem with the fey pop of the Smiths, and Missy with the heavy metal group Metallica, for starters) that some practitioners refer to making a bootleg as "doing a Missy" on a song.
But while no one is suggesting that the extravagant designs of those stars are going to be ignored, "right now we see our readers looking more to film stars like Lindsay Lohan and Reese Witherspoon than they would to a Missy Elliott," said Brandon Holley, who is Ms. Roperti's boss as the editor in chief of Elle Girl.
Now, she can't possibly be a young Missy, because when Missy was young, she was a boy... can she?
SHOVELS AND ROPE In The Huffington Post, Michael Bialas describes Michael Trent of Shovels and Rope as a "Denver dude" and his bandmate/wife, Cary Ann Hearst, a "Mississippi missy".
Not your average ode to friendship, it is a celebration rather than schmaltz, brimming with humour and charisma – a new Missy Elliott in the making.
It's a strange feeling, the pop world not shuddering on its axis as a new Missy record comes out.
When Devante signed Sista ("We had long-ass weaves, we was a mess," Missy recalls), Missy was twenty.
