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From miss + -hood.
misshood (uncountable)
- (dated) girlhood
1866, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Adventures of Philip on His Way Through the World, page 186:In her old heart there is a corner as romantic still as when she used to read the Wild Irish Girl or the Scottish Chiefs in the days of her misshood.