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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

get wrong en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /ɡɛt ɹæŋ/ (Northumbria)

Meanings

  1. (transitive) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get, wrong.
    • Emily got three of the sums wrong in her maths test.
    • You've got it all wrong: I'm innocent of this crime!
  2. (Norfolk, Northumbria, often, with off) To be told off or reprimanded; to get into trouble.
    • ‘I got wrong off my mum for showing her up and she told my dad when he got home and he gave me a great big wallop.’ 2001, Fred Sedgwick, Teaching Literacy: A Creative Approach, Continuum, page 133:
    • ‘She's right. You'll get wrong off the War Ag, Muriel, man,’ Eileen said, gaping at her audacity. 2014, Annie Wilkinson, The Land Girls, Simon & Schuster:
    • […] she couldn't tell her mother and father, because she would have got wrong off her mother and father […] 1976, John Henry Taylor, The Half-Way Generation: A Study of Asian Youths in Newcastle upon Tyne, NFER Publishing Company, page 138
    • When the silence had gone on a long time, Kath said, ‘I got wrong for saying nowt.’ 1986, Pat Barker, The Century's Daughter, Virago; republished as Liza's England, 1996, page 238:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
gets wrong Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
gotten wrong Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part US lexicographic
getting wrong Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
got wrong Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part UK lexicographic
got wrong Tense=Past lexicographic

Relateds

don't get me wrong