Meanings
verbmislippen (third-person singular simple present mislippens, present participle mislippening, simple past and past participle mislippened)
present singular third person mislippens · participle present mislippening · participle past mislippened · past mislippened
- Northern EnglandScotlandUKdialectaltransitiveTo neglect.
- Northern EnglandScotlandUKdialectaltransitiveTo suspect; to be suspicious of.
I thought it best to slip out quietly though, in case she should mislippen something of what we're gaun to do— [...]
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
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “mislippen,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mislippen.
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