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missaying

missaying is the present participle and gerund 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

Noun

missaying (plural missayings)

  1. A mistake in speech.

Forms of missaying

pluralmissayings

Questions about missaying

What does missaying mean?
Missaying means a mistake in speech.
What is missaying the present participle and gerund of?
Missaying is the present participle and gerund of missay.
What part of speech is missaying?
Missaying is a noun.
What is the plural of missaying?
The plural of missaying is missayings.

Words near missaying in the dictionary

  1. Missaukee County
  2. missaw
  3. missay
  4. missayer
  5. missayers
  6. missaying
  7. missayings
  8. missays
  9. misscan
  10. misscanned
  11. misscanning

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