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miscollocation

noun

Etymology

From mis- + collocation.

  1. learned borrowing from collocātiō — “a putting together”
  2. prefixed as miscollocation — “mis + collocation”

Definitions

  1. Wrong collocation.

    • Miscollocation or dislocation of related words disturbed the whole sense; its least effect was to give no sense, often it gave a dangerous sense.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for miscollocation. 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