mischunk

English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ chunk.

Verb

mischunk (third-person singular simple present mischunks, present participle mischunking, simple past and past participle mischunked)

1. To chunk incorrectly.
   • 1993, Robert Schreuder, Bert Weltens, The Bilingual Lexicon, page 204:

     We will present a number of examples suggesting this type of 'mischunking' below.

   • 1997, Rebecca E. Burnett, Technical Communication, page 216:

     There is no longer any temptation to mischunk the text.

   • 2003, G Schneider, “Learning to disambiguate syntactic relations”, in Computational Linguistics, volume 17, number 5:

     On the other hand, some PP-attachments are multiply ambiguous (they have more than two possible attachment sites) or occur fronted in a sentence-initial position, or a participant in the PP-relation is mistagged or mischunked.

Anagrams

• muchkins