Mistalk
noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The act or content of mistalking. uncountable, usually
"What you type gets sent across the network immediately. That means your talkee sees exactly what you type, including mistakes and "mistalks," so think before you type!"
- 1 To speak badly; to stutter, garble one's words, mispronounce words, substitute incorrect words, or make other such errors.
"The dictater frequently misreads or mistalks a word. If the error is plain, and leaves no room for doubt that it is an error, don't copy that error."
- 2 To talk inappropriately, misleadingly, mistakenly, or otherwise untruely.
"But the only thing that he retained of this first study was a certain "breathlessness" which is not absent in Shelley, but which assumes quite different form in Browning, and which is in fact the right name for his much mistalked of "obscurity.""
Synonyms
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More examples"The dictater frequently misreads or mistalks a word. If the error is plain, and leaves no room for doubt that it is an error, don't copy that error."
Etymology
From mis- + talk.
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