mispeg

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verb

To incorrectly ascribe a value or attribute to.

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Meanings

verbmispeg (third-person singular simple present mispegs, present participle mispegging, simple past and past participle mispegged)

present singular third person mispegs · participle present mispegging · participle past mispegged · past mispegged

  1. To incorrectly ascribe a value or attribute to.

    In addition, the activism by youth of various colors is mispegged under a single ethnic label, Latino.

    2000, Z Magazine - Volume 13, page 61
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    This imitation Dahomey trifle mispegged at two hundred francs at its debut, falls to forty, hovers at fifty and ends up in the hands of a souvenir bug.

    1952, John Crowe Ransom, The Kenyon Review - Volume 14, page 143

    Those bureaucrats tended to mispeg Belanger as a flaming radical with a penchant for spitting into a headwind .

    1990, Hank Nuwer, Broken Pledges: The Deadly Rite of Hazing, page 40

Origin

From mis- + peg.

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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