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missaid

missaid is the simple past and past participle of missay.

Meaning of missay

Verb

missay (third-person singular simple present missays, present participle missaying, simple past and past participle missaid)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To speak ill of (someone).
  2. (intransitive, obsolete) To say something erroneous; to speak wrongly.
    • The worde gone out she backe againe would call, / As her repenting so to have missayd [...].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Questions about missaid

What is missaid the simple past and past participle of?
Missaid is the simple past and past participle of missay.

Words near missaid in the dictionary

  1. miss-meal colic
  2. MISS.
  3. missa
  4. Missa Cantata
  5. missable
  6. missaid
  7. missal
  8. missalette
  9. missalettes
  10. missals
  11. missannotated

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