mislippen en · VERB
Etymology
From mis- + lippen.
Meanings
- (Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal, transitive) To neglect.
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(Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal, transitive) To suspect; to be suspicious of.
I thought it best to slip out quietly though, in case she should mislippen something of what we're gaun to do— [...]
1816, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter IV, in Tales of My Landlord, […], volume I (The Black Dwarf), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for William Blackwood, […]; London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 75:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| mislippening | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| mislippened | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| mislippened | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| mislippens | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic |