missay

English

Etymology

From Middle English misseien, misseggen, equivalent to mis- +‎ say. Cognate with Middle Dutch misseggen (“to missay”).

Verb

missay (third-person singular simple present missays, present participle missaying, simple past and past participle missaid)

1. (transitive, archaic) To speak ill of (someone).
2. (obsolete, intransitive) To say something erroneous; to speak wrongly.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.2:

     The worde gone out she backe againe would call, / As her repenting so to have missayd [...].