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missays

missays is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 missays

What is missays the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Missays is the third-person singular simple present indicative of missay.

Words near missays in the dictionary

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

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