Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To call by a wrong name.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To call by a wrong name; name improperly.
- To give an unworthy name or character to; berate; revile.
- Synonyms To misname; misterm.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To call by a wrong name; to name improperly.
- transitive verb obsolete To call by a bad name; to abuse.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb now dialectal To
call (someone) bad names; toinsult ,abuse . - verb To
call (something) by the wrong name.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb assign in incorrect name to
Etymologies
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Examples
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Shame to miscall the holy women who saved your saucy life for you. '
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Yet the man they miscall ghazi sought but the key to Khinjan Caves, with no thought at all about Heaven!
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You can miscall a horse race right once upon a time.
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Hence we never miscall the Pope but some familiar term dreamed up by journalists.
Bishop Alfonso de Galarreta chairman of the SSPX commission 2009
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Ah, so Buck complains when the umps miscall that DP.
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You can miscall a horse race right once upon a time.
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In a second or three, take one high stakes football match, throw in that controversial miscall, stir it up with loads of angry fans, whisk in a few politicians, let it bake overnight and what you end up with is a tasty football ferrora (ph).
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By the time the final votes were tallied, Hillary Clinton emerged victorious, was dubbed the "Comeback Kid", and pollsters were left scratching their heads, trying to demystify the pre-election miscall.
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Carolus Magnus then held court in Paris; but the text evidently alludes to one of the port-cities of Provence as Marseille which we English will miscall Marseilles.
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Europeans have also learnt to miscall the Egyptians “Arabs”: the difference is as great as between an Englishman and a Spaniard.
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