English Miss
frequently depreciative
noun
An unmarried woman (with the implication of primness or prudishness).
Origin
Late 18th century; earliest use found in Philip Thicknesse (1719–1792), travel writer. From English + miss.
- parking lot
- parking meter
- parking orbit
- parking permit
- parking stall
- parking strip
- parking tag
- parking ticket
- parking warden
- Parkinsonian
- parkinsonism
- Parkinson's disease
- Parkinson's law
- Parkinson's syndrome
- Parkinson syndrome
- parkish
- park-keeper
- parkland
- Park Lane
- park leaves
- parklet
- parkly
- Parkman, Francis
- Park, Mungo
- park officer