missay

English

Etymology

From Middle English misseien, misseyen, misseggen, equivalent to mis- + say. Cognate with Middle Dutch misseggen (to missay).

Verb

missay (third-person singular simple present missays, present participle missaying, simple past and past participle missaid)

  1. (transitive, archaic) To speak ill of (someone).
  2. (obsolete, intransitive) To say something erroneous; to speak wrongly.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.2:
      The worde gone out she backe againe would call, / As her repenting so to have missayd [...].

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