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)
- (transitive, archaic) To speak ill of (someone).
- (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 [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.2:
Translations
to say something wrongly
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