misconsume
verbEtymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mey-? Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂-der. Proto-Germanic *missaz Proto-Germanic *missa- Proto-West Germanic *missa- Old English mis- Middle English mys- English mis- Proto-Indo-European *ḱe Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Proto-Indo-European *upó Proto-Italic *supo Latin sub Latin sub- Proto-Indo-European *h₁em-der. Proto-Italic *emō Latin emō Latin sūmō Latin cōnsūmōder. Old French consumerbor. Middle English consumen English consume English misconsume From mis- + consume.
- derived from consumerbor
- derived from *emō Latin emō Latin sūmō Latin cōnsūmōder✻
- derived from *mey-? Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂-der✻
Definitions
To consume in an incorrect manner
To consume in an incorrect manner; to consume the wrong amount, the wrong things, or at the wrong place or time.
- Lovelock, for example, suggests the term “jaycustomers" to label customers who “misconsume” in a manner similar to jaywalkers who cross streets in unauthorized places.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for misconsume. 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