misword

present singular third person miswords · participle present miswording · participle past misworded · past misworded

1. transitiveTo word incorrectly.

   I misworded my offer: I meant help, not rescue.

   Synonyms: misphrase, misstate

plural miswords

1. obsoleteAn insult.

   A woman who used to work in my house told me that she 'never 'ad a misword with her 'usband.'

   1934, Alfred Allen Brockington, Mysticism and Poetry on a Basis of Experience, Kennikat Press, page 24

   2 more examples

   He then came down, took away his ladder, not a misword said to him, and by whose order it was done was not then known.

   1659-1661, Thomas Rugge, Diurnal

   And, as for yourself, Master Matthew, why I 've known you these fifty years, and never heard man, woman, or child speak a misword of you in my life.

   1846, “The Young Market-Woman”, in Belford Regis; Or, Sketches of a Country Town, Richard Bentley, page 237