Unnumbered source etymology
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Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA female given name from English, reasonably popular in the 1970s and the 1980s. · A diminutive of the female given name Melissa.
From the adjective misty, but sometimes also (like Missy) used as a nickname for Melissa.
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