What's the difference between missy and misty?

Missy


Definition:

  • (n.) See Misy.
  • (n.) An affectionate, or contemptuous, form of miss; a young girl; a miss.
  • (a.) Like a miss, or girl.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Nan had gone away for a weekend Prayathon and Mack had taken Katie and Missy to a shack in Oregon.
  • (2) Although MIA recently commissioned Bad Girls remixes featuring Azealia Banks and Missy Elliott, the new record will have "no collabs".
  • (3) Guitarist Donna Matthews left the band after she told frontwoman Justine Frischmann she wanted the new album to sound like Missy Elliott.
  • (4) The story of Missy's disappearance had been all too familiar to anyone who read second-rate thrillers about serial killers.
  • (5) You won’t find any swing or crooning standards here: just Missy, Kanye, Biggie and Foxy, while some rather good MCs-in-training keep pace on the stage.
  • (6) Irvine Welsh, John Waters, Chris Rock, Aidan Moffat, Missy Elliott –sometimes a radio edit just won’t do.
  • (7) "And I know where to find Missy's body," Mack laughed.
  • (8) During a tour of the White House, the pair were also joined by the rapper Missy Elliott for a rendition of This is For My Girls and later Elliott’s hit Get Ur Freak On.
  • (9) As well as the return of the Daleks, this season will bring back John Simm in his role as the doctor’s nemesis The Master, while Michelle Gomez will also be reprising her role as Missy.
  • (10) The two drove around the White House driveway while they sang Beyoncé and rapped with Missy Elliot, who made a cameo.
  • (11) But I also like JME and Fat White Family and Bobbie Gentry and Sly Stone and Missy Elliott and some of the strange Appalachian folk music that S plays me from time to time.
  • (12) Justice Lex Lasry will speak at the Federation Square event and Missy Higgins will perform music.
  • (13) While SS15 moved through dogtooth print and double-breasted coats, this collection - with soundtrack of Missy Elliot and The Cure turned up loud - fell to streetwear.
  • (14) In correspondence, Clinton calls her friend “Missy Diane”, and signs Christmas cards to her from the White House “From Potus and Flotus”.
  • (15) I played drums, but you can’t write a song just to drums.” Brown was the first Spice Girl to record a solo record, and an impressive one it was, too – I Want You Back , featuring hip-hop star Missy Elliott .
  • (16) Missy Elliot does a guest rap on This Is For My Girls and she popped up in the back seat to deliver her verse, then joined Corden and Obama on Get Ur Freak On, a song whose lyrics didn’t seem to phase Michelle one bit.
  • (17) But when they reached the shore, Missy was nowhere to be seen.
  • (18) She is seventh in the world rankings Key rival Missy Franklin, another event where the American leads the world Medal prediction Finalist Liam Tancock 100m backstroke Over one length of the pool, Tancock is all but unbeatable.
  • (19) And since you've been such a good man, I'll show you where Missy is buried."
  • (20) Shortly after the summer that Missy vanished, The Great Sadness had draped around Mack's shoulders like an invisible cliche.

Misty


Definition:

  • (superl.) Accompained with mist; characterized by the presence of mist; obscured by, or overspread with, mist; as, misty weather; misty mountains; a misty atmosphere.
  • (superl.) Obscured as if by mist; dim; obscure; clouded; as, misty sight.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Many of Long’s pieces are fragile and fleeting: a stripe of un-mown grass in an otherwise close cropped lawn at the Henry Moore foundation , a misty circle in Scotland that lasted only until the day warmed up, a stripe of green grass left by plucking daisies, or paintings in wet mud that dry out and crumble.
  • (2) It introduces a welcome trenchancy into subjects often shrouded in misty rhetoric.
  • (3) It is the England that then prime minister John Major vowed would never vanish in a famous 1993 speech: “Long shadows on county grounds, warm beer, invincible green suburbs, dog lovers and pools fillers and – as George Orwell said – ‘old maids bicycling to holy communion through the morning mist’.” Major was mining Orwell’s wartime essay The Lion and the Unicorn, whose tone was one of reassurance – the national culture will survive, despite everything: “The gentleness, the hypocrisy, the thoughtlessness, the reverence for law and the hatred of uniforms will remain, along with the suet puddings and the misty skies.” Orwell and Major were both asserting the strength of a national culture at times when Britishness – for both men basically Englishness – was felt to be under threat from outside dangers (war, integration into Europe).
  • (4) The Boston Herald , a local tabloid that spilled oceans of ink denouncing him in life, remembered him with uncharacteristic mistiness.
  • (5) The implant surfaces evaluated were Silastic II, Siltex, MISTI, Biocell, Silastic MSI, and Même.
  • (6) I’m sure there will be a few people that will be a misty-eyed about it leaving service, in the same way as Concorde: they are one plane that you can always recognise.” But, Holland-Kaye says, the difference in noise between the 747 and a new plane such as the A350, which comes into service this year, is stark: “It’s far quieter – less of a screeching noise and that’s really welcome for local communities.
  • (7) I'd like to say I tasted them first on some misty Irish moorland, or was fed them by grizzled crofters in the Scottish highlands (where they are known as tattie scones).
  • (8) October 24, 2013 Daniel Robinson (@SalmonLeap2) @lengeldavid Third-generation @RedSox supporter getting misty eyed seeing Fenway Dublin.
  • (9) Note that vast landscape behind them: it depicts among misty mountains the epic wall begun by the first emperor of China more than 2,000 years ago .
  • (10) That same year, Eastwood directed his first film, Play Misty for Me.
  • (11) The adrenal function in diabetes mutant mice with misty coat colour (dbm) was investigated by measurements of serum corticosteroids, adrenal weights and adrenal corticosteroid content.
  • (12) Purified cultures of pancreatic islet cells 4--7 day old postnatal "misty diabetic" mice and normal siblings were established and then maintained in Eagle's minimal essential medium without serum.
  • (13) KC look ready to lay siege - but they need to be careful not to be caught on the break... 2.11am GMT 1 min It's very misty inside the Cauldron, but that's a result of a lot of pre-game pyrotechnics.
  • (14) Funny how they never get all misty-eyed and nostalgic for the low-profile, skint men they've known.
  • (15) The hotel’s Taberna bar is a popular post-work meeting spot, both for the quality of its tapas and the refreshing misty spray puffed over the outdoor seating area in summer.
  • (16) "At one point the ball was hoofed up the pitch and over the goal," recalls a misty-eyed Paul.
  • (17) There are seven black women gracing fall magazine covers: Willow Smith, Beyoncé, Kerry Washington, Ciara, Serena Williams, Misty Copeland and Amandla Stenberg.
  • (18) Behind that wan painting of misty mountains, millions of lives long for self-expression.
  • (19) My Facebook feed is filled with my friends’ pictures of crabs with no eyes, shrimp and crawfish with one eye or things missing,” Misty Fisher, 24, said.
  • (20) Throughout the last stretch of the journey, in a minibus driving along winding roads through the misty Welsh landscape, I am in full prodigal-son mode, returning to the land of my fathers, or at least my mother's fathers.