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Misspeak

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To fail to pronounce, utter, or speak correctly. US, ambitransitive

    "Either I misspoke or you misheard."

  2. 2
    pronounce a word incorrectly wordnet
  3. 3
    To speak insultingly or disrespectfully. intransitive, obsolete

Etymology

From Middle English misspeken, mispeken, mysspeken, from Old English *misspecan, missprecan (“to murmur”), equivalent to mis- + speak.

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