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mispeg

mispeg verb: to incorrectly ascribe a value or attribute to.

Verb

mispeg (third-person singular simple present mispegs, present participle mispegging, simple past and past participle mispegged)

  1. To incorrectly ascribe a value or attribute to.
    • This imitation Dahomey trifle mispegged at two hundred francs at its debut, falls to forty, hovers at fifty and ends up in the hands of a souvenir bug.1952, John Crowe Ransom, The Kenyon Review - Volume 14, page 143
    • Those bureaucrats tended to mispeg Belanger as a flaming radical with a penchant for spitting into a headwind .1990, Hank Nuwer, Broken Pledges: The Deadly Rite of Hazing, page 40

Forms of mispeg

third-person singular presentmispegs
present participlemispegging
past participlemispegged
pastmispegged

Origin of mispeg

From mis- + peg.

Questions about mispeg

What does mispeg mean?
Mispeg means to incorrectly ascribe a value or attribute to.
What part of speech is mispeg?
Mispeg is a verb.
What is the past tense of mispeg?
The past tense of mispeg is mispegged.

Words near mispeg in the dictionary

  1. mispay
  2. mispaying
  3. mispayment
  4. mispayments
  5. mispays
  6. mispeg
  7. mispegged
  8. mispegging
  9. mispegs
  10. mispell
  11. mispelling

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