missay
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English misseien, misseyen, misseggen, equivalent to mis- + say. Cognate with Middle Dutch misseggen (“to missay”).
Verb edit
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, “Book III, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- The worde gone out she backe againe would call, / As her repenting so to have missayd [...].
Translations edit
to say something wrongly
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