Mississippi

English thumb|240px|Flag of Mississippi region Q1494 en Location of the state of Mississippi in the United States thumb|right|a map showing the Mississippi River and its drainage basin Alternative forms en Missippi nonstandard Pronunciation en /ˌmɪ.sɪˈsɪ.pi/ US en en-us-Mississippi.ogg US en ɪpi 4 Etymology 1 en oj misi-ziibi, oj ᒥᓯ᐀ᓰᐱ misi-siipi great river. Proper noun en Q1494en state c/USA. en 1970 Black Blood & The Chocolate Pickles Mississippi Mud Mississippi mud is soaked in black blood / How many more must die? en 2014-11-02 w:John Oliver w:Last Week Tonight with John Oliver 1 23 State Legislatures and ALEC 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.” en Haley Talbot and Kristin Wilson House votes to censure Democratic congressman who led Trump investigations w:CNN https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/21/politics/adam-schiff-censure-vote-house 2023-06-21 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. https://web.archive.org/web/20260518195434/https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/21/politics/adam-schiff-censure-vote-house 18 May 2026 en Q1497en with the en A <<major river>> in the United States, flowing southward from north-central <<s/Minnesota>> through <<s/Wisconsin,Iowa,Illinois,Missouri,Kentucky,Tennessee,Arkansas,Minnesota,Louisiana>>, emptying into the Gulf of Mexico + + River. Synonyms state the Magnolia State, the Hospitality State nicknames; en MS / MS. / Ms. / Ms , en 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 Derived terms en Mississippi gopher frog Mississippi County Mississippian Mississippi kite Mississippi Mills Mississippi plan Mississippi rifle Mississippi River Mississippi wind chime MS Mississippi mud pie Mississippi sax Mississippi Bubble Mississippi Scheme Mississippi Territory Mississippi catfish Mississippi Delta State of Mississippi Related terms en Kichi Sipi Kitchissippi Nipissing Translations state Arabic: ar المِسِسِبِّي Bulgarian: bg Мисиси́пи m Catalan: ca Mississipí Chickasaw: cic Missipi' Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 密西西比 Mìxīxībǐ, cmn 密西西比州 Mìxīxībǐ-zhōu Czech: cs Mississippi Danish: da Mississippi Dutch: nl Mississippi Esperanto: eo Misisipio Finnish: fi Mississippi French: fr Mississippi Frisian: West Frisian: fy Mississippy Galician: gl Mississippi m Georgian: ka მისისიპი German: de Mississippi Greek: el Μισισίπι Hebrew: he מיסיסיפי f misisipi Hindi: hi मिसिसिपी Indonesian: id Mississippi Italian: it Mississippi Japanese: ja ミシシッピ Mishishippi Khmer: km មីស៊ីស៊ីបពី Korean: ko ^미시시피 Lao: lo ມິສສິດສສິບປິ Latin: la Mississippia f Macedonian: mk Мисиси́пи Marathi: mr मिसिसिपी Navajo: nv Mísísípii hahoodzo Norwegian: no Mississippi Persian: fa میسیسیپی Polish: pl Missisipi n Portuguese: pt Mississippi, pt Mississípi m Russian: ru Миссиси́пи m Spanish: es Misisipí, es Misisipi Swedish: sv Mississippi Thai: th มิสซิสซิปปี Turkish: tr Mississippi Ukrainian: uk Міссісі́пі Yiddish: yi מיסיסיפּי river Albanian: sq Misisipi Arabic: ar المِسِسِبِّي Arapaho: arp Beesniicíe Armenian: hy Միսիսիպի, hy Միսիսիպի գետ Azerbaijani: az Missisipi Basque: eu Mississippi Belarusian: be Місісі́пі f Bengali: bn মিসিসিপি নদী Bulgarian: bg Мисисѝпи f Catalan: ca Mississipí m Cheyenne: chy Máʼxe-éʼometaaʼe Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 密西西比河 Mìxīxībǐ-hé Czech: cs Mississippi f Danish: da Mississippifloden Dutch: nl Mississippi Esperanto: eo Misisipo Estonian: et Mississippi Finnish: fi Mississippi French: fr Mississippi m Galician: gl Mississippi m Georgian: ka მისისიპი German: de Mississippi m Greek: el Μισσισσιππής n, el Μισισιπής n Hebrew: he מיסיסיפי misisipi Hungarian: hu Mississippi Icelandic: is Mississippifljót f Indonesian: id Mississippi Italian: it Mississippi m Japanese: ja ミシシッピ川 Mishishippi-gawa Kazakh: kk Миссисипи Korean: ko 미시시피강 Lao: lo ມິສສິດສສິບປິ, lo ແມ່ນ້ຳມິສສິດສສິບປິ Latvian: lv Misisipi f Lithuanian: lt Misisipė f Macedonian: mk Мисиси́пи Malay: ms Mississippi Malayalam: ml മിസിസിപ്പി നദി Marathi: mr मिसिसिपी Norwegian: Bokmål: nb Mississippi f Nynorsk: nn Mississippielva f Ojibwe: oj ᒥᐦᓯᓰᐱ misi-ziibi, oj ᑭᐦᒋᓰᐱ gichi-ziibi Pawnee: paw Kickaátit Persian: fa رود میسیسیپی rud misisipi Polish: pl Missisipi f Portuguese: pt Mississipi m, pt Mississípi m Romanian: ro Mississippi m Russian: ru Миссиси́пи f Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: sh Мисисипи m Latin: sh Mississippi m Slovak: sk Mississippi Slovene: sl Misisipi m Spanish: es Misisipí m, es Misisipi m Swedish: sv Mississippifloden Tagalog: tl Mississippi Thai: th มิสซิสซิปปี, th แม่น้ำมิสซิสซิปปี Turkish: tr Mississippi Nehri Ukrainian: uk Міссісі́пі f Vietnamese: vi Sông Mississippi Interjection Used in a common chronometric counting scheme, in which each iteration is sequentially numbered and supposed to equal approximately one second in length. en 1996 Cheers & Jeers Field and Stream 101 September 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. Noun A recitation of Mississippi (the interjection). en 1997 George Clark The Small Bees’ Honey: Stories Buffalo, NY White Pine Press 129 I counted five Mississippis between each flash of lightning and the thunder crash that followed. en 2008 w:Tim Winton Breath_(novel) Breath Picador UK Paperback 2008 3 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. Noun en games A variant of bagatelle. See also Appendix:Words used as placeholders to count seconds Wikipedia article on the Mississippi River Etymology 2 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. Proper noun 1 en river c/Canada that flows from eastern Ontario into the Ottawa River. Synonyms en Mississippi River Further reading Mississippi River (Ontario) Danish da: Etymology Borrowed from da en Mississippi. Proper noun da proper noun genitive Mississippis da Mississippi Q1494 Finnish fi: Etymology From fi en Mississippi. Pronunciation mis%is%ip%i or any combination of short/long Proper noun fi Mississippi Q1494 fi Mississippi Q1497 1 Declension sg Mississi pp p ä Derived terms fi mississippiläinen fi compounds mississipinalligaattori mississipinkäki Mississippi-kausi mississippialaiskausi mississippinalligaattori Italian it: Etymology it en Mississippi, from it oj misi-ziibi great river Latn. Pronunciation Mississìppi,Missi[s]ìppi,Missi[s]ìpi<r:DiPI> Proper noun m it Mississippi Q1497 1 it Mississippi Q1494 References Portuguese pt: thumb|right|Mississippi Alternative forms pt Mississípi Mississipi Etymology pt en Mississippi, from pt oj misi-ziibi great river Latn. Pronunciation [ip:íp] pt ipi 4 Proper noun m pt Mississippi Q1497 1 pt Mississippi Q1494 See also Slovak sk: Pronunciation misisipi Proper noun n sk Mississippi Q1494 References