calling out of one's name

Verb

call out of one's name (third-person singular simple present calls out of one's name, present participle calling out of one's name, simple past and past participle called out of one's name)

1. (now chiefly African-American Vernacular, formerly more widespread) To call someone by a name other than their actual name; to misname.
   • ‘Mrs. Pettican,’ she said to me, which I call it better manners than callin’ you Cook as they mostly do, as though they paid your wages for the right of callin’ you out of your name-1930, Dorothy Sayers, Strong Poison
2. (now chiefly African-American Vernacular, formerly more widespread) To swear at (someone); to curse out.
   • 'Get out of my house, you wh—e!' to which she added another name, which we do not care to stain our paper with: it was a monosyllable beginning with a b—[. ... Betty replied] 'I am a woman as well as yourself,' she roared out, 'and no she-dog; and if I have been a little naughty, I am not the...1832, Henry Fielding, The Adventures of Joseph Andrews, page 66