mislippen

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ lippen

Verb

mislippen (third-person singular simple present mislippens, present participle mislippening, simple past and past participle mislippened)

1. (transitive, British, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To neglect.
2. (transitive, British, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To suspect; to be suspicious of.
   • 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:

     I thought it best to slip out quietly though, in case she should mislippen something of what we're gaun to do— [...]

Anagrams

• pimpinels, pimplines