misthank

Verb

misthank (third-person singular simple present misthanks, present participle misthanking, simple past and past participle misthanked)

1. (obsolete) To express one's discontent with someone's behavior.
   • I had (in Harbour) heav'd mine Anchor o're, And ev'n already set one foot a-shoar; When lo, the Dolphin, beating 'gainst the bank, 'Gan mine obliuion moodily mis-thank:1611, Joshua Sylvester, Du Bartas: His Deume Weekes and Workes Translated, page 126
   • A ruin'd Ccountry for it's woeful lot Misthanks it's King, nor will be satisfied.1812, William Shakespeare, Capel Lofft, Aphorisms from Shakespeare, page 381
2. To thank or give credit to someone for something they did not do.
   • If only I hadn't gotten drunk and raced around lying and misthanking .1983, Muriel Canfield Kanoza, I Wish I Could Say I Love You, page 37
   • Mis-Thanking Russell Edson2022, Nicholas Lauridsen, “Nobody's Storybook: Reading Russell Edson for the Wrong Reasons”, in Anne Caldwell, Oz Hardwick, editor, Prose Poetry in Theory and Practice