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miscall

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7 lettersPronunciation /mɪskɔːl/Part of speech verbSorted acillmsStarts with MEnds with L0 clues
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Definitions

  1. Assign an incorrect name to

Word origin

From Middle English miscallen, equivalent to mis- + call.

Used in a sentence

  • But one aboue the rest in speciall, / That had an hog beene late, hight Grille by name, / Repined greatly, and did him miscall, / That had from hoggish forme him brought to naturall.
  • ‘In this country, peasants miscall it “Cowslip,” though of course the true Cowslip, Primula veris, is a different plant altogether.’
  • The networks soon discovered that they had miscalled Florida, based, so it was later explained, on important errors and miscalculations made from their combined pool source of information, the Voter News Service.

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