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mis-sing en · VERB

Pronunciation

• mĭs-sĭngʹ
• /mɪsˈsɪŋ/

Etymology

From mis- + sing.

Meanings

1. To sing incorrectly.
   • And remember this other immortal line of the same song you misheard—not to mention mis-sang? 'Olive, the other reindeer.' 2014, Christie Ridgway, Always Mine:
   • I watch and listen to children learning this little song, and through repeated observation of the videotapes and examination of the way the children sing or mis-sing the song, I plumb new depths of understanding music and learning. 1998, Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, page 48:
   • The ragas are personified, like the devatā of a mantram; so that to mis-sing a rāga or rāginī is to break the limbs of a god or goddess. 1916, Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy, Rajput Painting - Volume 1, page 65:
   • She found him a piano teacher so he could learn some of the songs in the music books – his missinging of the tunes was driving her crazy. 2014, C.P.T. Jennings, A Conspiracy of Goodness:
   • Still he apprehends that the song has been mis-sung or that he has been scolded for doing something which he did not do, and this apprehending must be classified as belonging to thinking. 2010, R.F. Dearden, Paul H. Hirst, R.S. Peters, Education and the Development of Reason:

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