Misgreet

verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To greet wrongly; (by extension) to affront or insult

    "If any of the gild misgreet another, let him pay a syster of honey, unless with two friends he can clear himself."

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"If any of the gild misgreet another, let him pay a syster of honey, unless with two friends he can clear himself."

Etymology

From Middle English *misgreten, from Old English misgrētan (“to affront; insult”), equivalent to mis- + greet.

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