messages
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmɛsɪd͡ʒɪz/
Audio (US) (file) - Hyphenation: mes‧sages
Noun
messages
- plural of message
Noun
messages pl (plural only)
- (Ireland, Scotland and Northern England) Shopping, groceries, errands.
- 1983, Raymond McClean, The road to Bloody Sunday, page 119:
- I was going up the town to buy some messages.
- 1987, Pulpsmith, volume 6, page 275:
- A South African woman, just married to an Irishman and newly arrived in this country, was shocked when her husband told her, "I just saw yer man in the shop when I was getting the messages (groceries)." "My what?" "Yer man. […] "
- 1995, Alan Warner, Morvern Callar, Vintage 2015, p. 9:
- A woman with a well-to-do south voice told me to wash my soily hands before touching her messages.
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Verb
messages
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of message
French
Noun
messages m
- plural of message
Scots
Noun
messages
- plural of message
- (plural only) shopping
- A'm jist awa for ma messages. = I'm just off to get some shopping.