misaccount

verb
/mɪsəˈkaʊnt/

Etymology

From Middle English misaccounten, equivalent to mis- + account.

  1. inherited from misaccounten

Definitions

  1. to account badly, wrongfully, or in error

  2. A bad or wrong account

    A bad or wrong account; an incorrect narrative.

    • Oakley shows how a misaccount arises from “masculine ambivalence" about birth, which obstructs women from producing new accounts.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for misaccount. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA