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mishyphen en · VERB

Etymology

From mis- + hyphen.

Meanings

1. (rare) Synonym of mishyphenate.
   • The Folio prints this with these errors of transposition and mishyphening: ' the honey-heauy-dew.' 1864, Charles Cowden Clarke, Cassell's illustrated Shakespeare., page 279:
   • Every word omitted, inserted, mishyphened at the end of a line in the printed copy; but spelled, or in any manner changed from the printed copy if the entire word is written in one line in conformity with must be penalized. 1930, William Ernest Harned, New Typewriting Studies: Complete Course:
   • Of the tentative way in which the President's medical attendant's name has been spelled and misspelled and dissevered and mishyphened, we shall say nothing. 1899 February 25, “Newspaper Medical Expressions”, in The Medical News, volume 74, page 241:

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mishyphenate