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mislippens

mislippens is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 mislippens

What is mislippens the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Mislippens is the third-person singular simple present indicative of mislippen.

Words near mislippens in the dictionary

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

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