Missippi

English

Alternative forms

• Miss'ippi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɪˈsɪpi/

Proper noun

Missippi

1. (Southern US) Nonstandard form of Mississippi.
   • 1965 [1959], William Faulkner, The Mansion (The Snopes Trilogy; 3)‎^[1], New York: Vintage Books, →ISBN, →OCLC:

     Not only you won’t be depriving no native-born Missippi grub contractor outen his rightful and natural profit on the native-born Missippi grub […]

   • 2009 August 24, James Patterson, Richard DiLallo, Alex Cross's Trial (Alex Cross; 15), London: Random House, →ISBN, page 374:

     "Mama always said I come into Miss'ippi the same year Miss'ippi joined up with the United States."

   • 2009 November 15, Charles W. Eagles, “Segregation at Ole Miss”, in The Price of Defiance: James Meredith and the Integration of Ole Miss‎^[2], University of North Carolina Press, →ISBN, page 43:

     In succeeding months and years, the tall and mustachioed Jim Ivy and his cry of "Come on, Miss'ippi" became increasingly popular, and college students began to affectionately call him "Blind Jim."