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mispronoun

mispronoun verb: to refer to (someone) using third-person pronouns other than their preferred gender pronouns, either unknowingly or intentionally.

Verb

mispronoun (third-person singular simple present mispronouns, present participle mispronouning, simple past and past participle mispronouned)

  1. (transitive) To refer to (someone) using third-person pronouns other than their preferred gender pronouns, either unknowingly or intentionally.
    • At times, people mispronoun us, calling us by incorrect pronouns, or misgender us, assuming incorrect genders. Mispronouning and misgendering can be intentional or unintentional.2014, Holiday Simmons, Fresh! White, “Our Many Selves”, in Laura Erickson-Schroth, editor, Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community, Oxford: Oxford University Press...
    • If Victoria doesn't feel that she can sufficiently trust Susan to help her out when James, for example, mispronouns her, then Victoria may simply cease to eat lunch with her colleagues.2017, Rachel McKinnon, “Allies Behaving Badly: Gaslighting as epistemic injustice”, in Ian James Kidd, José Medina, Gaile Pohlhaus, Jr., editors, The Routledge Handbook of Epistemic Injustice, page...

Forms of mispronoun

third-person singular presentmispronouns
present participlemispronouning
past participlemispronouned
pastmispronouned

Origin of mispronoun

From mis- + pronoun.

Questions about mispronoun

What does mispronoun mean?
Mispronoun means to refer to (someone) using third-person pronouns other than their preferred gender pronouns, either unknowingly or intentionally.
What part of speech is mispronoun?
Mispronoun is a verb.
What is the past tense of mispronoun?
The past tense of mispronoun is mispronouned.

Words near mispronoun in the dictionary

  1. mispromoted
  2. mispromotes
  3. mispromoting
  4. mispromotion
  5. mispromotions
  6. mispronoun
  7. mispronounce
  8. mispronounced
  9. mispronouncement
  10. mispronouncements
  11. mispronouncer

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