Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To express incorrectly; word improperly.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A curse.
- noun A word uttered amiss.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To word wrongly.
- noun obsolete A word wrongly spoken; a cross word.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
word incorrectly.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The typewriter does nothing to cut down on how badly you're going to misword everything - it happens no matter what your writing implement is.
Typewriter Forces You To Focus While You Write | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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The typewriter does nothing to cut down on how badly you're going to misword everything- it happens no matter what your writing implement is.
Typewriter Forces You To Focus While You Write | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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It followed that from the first I viewed him with a strange mixture of rivalry and affection; ready at one moment to quarrel with him and beat him for a misword, and the next to let him beat me if it pleased him.
In Kings' Byways Stanley John Weyman 1891
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He then came down, took away his ladder, not a misword said to him, and by whose order it was done was not then known.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1660 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668
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He then came down, took away his ladder, not a misword said to him, and by whose order it was done was not then known.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 04: March/April 1659-1660 Samuel Pepys 1668
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He then came down, took away his ladder, not a misword said to him, and by whose order it was done was not then known.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668
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He then came down, took away his ladder, not a misword said to him, and by whose order it was done was not then known.
The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Mar/Apr 1659/'60 Pepys, Samuel 1660
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