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mislippening

mislippening is the present participle and gerund of mislippen.

Meaning of mislippen

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, […]...

Questions about mislippening

What is mislippening the present participle and gerund of?
Mislippening is the present participle and gerund of mislippen.

Words near mislippening in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mislippening (page history and authors); mislippen (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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