miscatching

Verb

miscatch (third-person singular simple present miscatches, present participle miscatching, simple past and past participle miscaught)

1. To make a miscatch (any sense).
   • How great a stumbling block to a good dictator would be the amanuensis who lacks concentration of mind, or through carelessness miscatches a word, and calls out to him in the midst of a brilliant flow of ideas, “wait please, I have not caught the word." or, "excuse me, did you say so and so?"1890 February, Mrs. M. A. O'Neil, “Amanuenses Work From a Woman's Stand-Point”, in The Journal of Commercial Education, volume 5, page 166
2. To stutter or break the flow of words when speaking.
   • A woman near—her face livid in the stage-light and her eyes like cairngorms—miscaught a line and laughed aloud. Her panic at the sound of her own voice alone, was that of a doe parted from the herd.1913, Lippincott's Monthly Magazine: Volume 92

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