messages

Etymology

noun

1. plural of message

noun

1. (Ireland, Scotland and Northern England) Shopping, groceries, errands.
   I was going up the town to buy some messages. 1983, Raymond McClean, The road to Bloody Sunday, page 119
   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. […]" 1987, Pulpsmith, volume 6, page 275
   A woman with a well-to-do south voice told me to wash my soily hands before touching her messages. 1995, Alan Warner, Morvern Callar, Vintage, published 2015, page 9

verb

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of message