Etymology

misgreet

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Today it means: To greet wrongly; (by extension) to affront or insult Full definition →

Middle English *misgreten ← Old English misgrētan
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  1. Old English · inherited frommisgrētan“to affront; insult”
  2. Middle English · inherited from*misgreten
  3. English todaymisgreet

From Middle English *misgreten, from Old English misgrētan (“to affront; insult”), equivalent to mis- + greet.

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