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)

1. (transitive, archaic) To speak ill of (someone).
2. (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

to say something wrongly

• Maori: nape

Anagrams

• Ismays