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mislippen

mislippen verb: to neglect.

Verb

mislippen (third-person singular simple present mislippens, present participle mislippening, simple past and past participle mislippened)

  1. (Northern England, Scotland, UK, dialectal, transitive) To neglect.
  2. (Northern England, Scotland, UK, dialectal, transitive) To 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, […]...

Forms of mislippen

third-person singular presentmislippens
present participlemislippening
past participlemislippened
pastmislippened

Origin of mislippen

From mis- + lippen.

Questions about mislippen

What does mislippen mean?
Mislippen means to neglect.
What part of speech is mislippen?
Mislippen is a verb.
What is the past tense of mislippen?
The past tense of mislippen is mislippened.

Words near mislippen in the dictionary

  1. mislinkage
  2. mislinked
  3. mislinking
  4. mislinks
  5. mislins
  6. mislippen
  7. mislippened
  8. mislippening
  9. mislippens
  10. mislist
  11. mislisted

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