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misdub

verb

Etymology

From mis- + dub.

  1. derived from *dʰewbʰ-✻ — “plug, peg, wedge”
  2. derived from *dub-✻ — “to hit, strike”
  3. inherited from *dubbōn✻
  4. derived from adober — “to equip with arms; adorn”
  5. inherited from dubbian — “to knight by striking with a sword, dub”
  6. inherited from dubben
  7. prefixed as misdub — “mis + dub”

Definitions

  1. To dub incorrectly (any sense).

    • Hearken, James of England, And you, his peers of council; Spain my master Claims Walter Raleigh here, misdubbed for knight, A felon, and a murderer, and a pirate.
    • At one point in this sequence it seems that the taps have been slightly misdubbed — very rare in Astaire's work.
    • Godard in Tout Va Bien (1972) and Hanoun in Une Simple Histoire deliberately misdub in order to sabotage the fictive unity of voice and image.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for misdub. 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