mislippen
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mislippen (third-person singular simple present mislippens, present participle mislippening, simple past and past participle mislippened)
- (transitive, British, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To neglect.
- (transitive, British, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To suspect; to be suspicious of.
- 1816, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter IV, in Tales of My Landlord, […], volume I (The Black Dwarf), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for William Blackwood, […]; London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 75:
- I thought it best to slip out quietly though, in case she should mislippen something of what we're gaun to do— [...]