Mississippi

• Missippi (nonstandard)

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌmɪ.sɪˈsɪ.pi/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɪpi

Borrowed from Ojibwe misi-ziibi, ᒥᓯ᐀ᓰᐱ (misi-siipi, “great river”).

Mississippi

2. A state of the United States.
   • 1970, Black Blood & The Chocolate Pickles, “Mississippi Mud”:

     Mississippi mud is soaked in black blood / How many more must die?

   • 2014 November 2, “State Legislatures and ALEC”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 1, episode 23, John Oliver (actor), via HBO:

     That’s right. In fact, a law which passed in Mississippi is so restrictive, it could close the one remaining abortion clinic they have in the entire state, meaning a Mississippi woman, right now, could be saying to herself, “I need to go someplace more progressive like Alabama.”

   • 2023 June 21, Haley Talbot and Kristin Wilson, “House votes to censure Democratic congressman who led Trump investigations”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     The vote was 213-209 along party lines. Republican members of the House Ethics Committee – Michael Guest of Mississippi, Dave Joyce of Ohio, Andrew Garbarino of New York, John Rutherford of Florida and Michelle Fischbach of Minnesota – voted present. GOP Rep. Ken Buck of Colorado also voted present but he is not on the Ethics Committee.

4. (with the) A major river in the United States, flowing southward from north-central Minnesota through Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Minnesota and Louisiana, emptying into the Gulf of Mexico.

• (state): the Magnolia State, the Hospitality State (nicknames); MS / MS. / Ms. / Ms, Miss. / MISS. / MISS (abbreviations)
• (river): the Big Muddy (also used for the Missouri), Big River, Body of a Nation, El Grande, El Grande de Soto, the Father of Waters, the Gathering of Waters, the Great River, the Mighty Mississippi, the Mississippi River, the Muddy Mississippi, Old Man River (nicknames)

Mississippi

1. Used in a common chronometric counting scheme, in which each iteration is sequentially numbered and supposed to be approximately one second in length.
   • 1996 September, “Cheers & Jeers”, in Field and Stream, volume 101, page 12:

     Any reader who uses the old “One Mississippi, Two Mississippi, etc.” method to estimate distance to a storm, and doesn't get any further than a count of five to eight had better be in a safe shelter.

Mississippi (plural Mississippis)

1. A recitation of Mississippi (the interjection).
   • 1997, George Clark, The Small Bees’ Honey: Stories, Buffalo, NY: White Pine Press, page 129:

     I counted five Mississippis between each flash of lightning and the thunder crash that followed.

   • 2008, Tim Winton, chapter 3, in Breath, Picador UK Paperback 2008 edition, page 30:

     We had lungs like camel bladders by then; we sledged each other mercilessly, each daring the other to break the two-minute limit beneath the diving board. In the summer sea when it was flat-calm and there was nothing else to do but dive down and lie on the clean, ribbed bottom and hold our breaths to count Mississippis we got pretty close to our goal.

Mississippi (plural Mississippis)

1. (games) A variant of bagatelle.

• Appendix:Words used as placeholders to count seconds
• Wikipedia article on the Mississippi River

Although its current spelling may be derived from that of its much larger American cousin, it is most certainly a corruption of a different indigenous name, as the translation “great water” would not apply to a relatively minor tributary of the Ottawa, definitely the largest river in the area. Instead, the name may originate from Mazinaa[bikinigan]-ziibi, Algonquian for “[painted] image river”, referring to the pictographs found on Mazinaw Lake, though this is by no means proven.

the Mississippi

1. A river in Canada that flows from eastern Ontario into the Ottawa River.

• Mississippi River

• Mississippi River (Ontario) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Borrowed from English Mississippi.

Mississippi (genitive Mississippis)

1. Mississippi (a state of the United States)

From English Mississippi.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmisisipi/, [ˈmis̠iˌs̠ipi]
• IPA^(key): /ˈmisːisːipːi/, [ˈmis̠ːis̠ˌs̠ipːi] (or any combination of short/long)
• Rhymes: -ipːi
• Syllabification^(key): Mis‧sis‧sip‧pi
• Hyphenation^(key): Mis‧sis‧sip‧pi

Mississippi

1. Mississippi (a state of the United States)
2. Mississippi, Mississippi River (a major river in the United States, flowing southward from north-central Minnesota through Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Minnesota and Louisiana, emptying into the Gulf of Mexico)

Borrowed from English Mississippi.

• IPA^(key): /mis.sisˈsip.pi/, /mis.siˈsip.pi/, /mis.siˈsi.pi/^[1]
• Rhymes: -ippi, -ipi
• Hyphenation: Mis‧sis‧sìp‧pi

Mississippi m

1. Mississippi, Mississippi River (a major river in the United States, flowing southward from north-central Minnesota through Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Minnesota and Louisiana, emptying into the Gulf of Mexico)
2. Mississippi (a state of the United States)

• Mississípi, Mississipi

Unadapted borrowing from English Mississippi.

• Rhymes: -ipi

Mississippi m

1. Mississippi, Mississippi River (a major river in the United States, flowing southward from north-central Minnesota through Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Minnesota and Louisiana, emptying into the Gulf of Mexico)
2. Mississippi (a state of the United States)

• IPA^(key): [ˈmisisipi]

Mississippi n

1. Mississippi (a state of the United States)

• “Mississippi”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025