misherd

verb
/ˈmɪs.hɝd/US/ˈmɪs.hɜː(ɹ)d/UK

Etymology

From mis- + herd.

  1. derived from *(s)kerdʰ- — “file, row, herd
  2. inherited from *herdō — “herd
  3. inherited from *herdu
  4. inherited from hierd
  5. inherited from herde
  6. prefixed as misherd — “mis + herd

Definitions

  1. To herd into the wrong place.

    • They beseiged manorial overseers to adjudicate disputes concerning ownership of rustled livestock or damage to crops caused by strayed (or deliberately misherded) animals.
    • Russ wasn't fighting that actual second but you could tell he had been by the way the other customers were stood about the room in ragged bunches like misherded sheep.
    • Were we innocent as farm animals and in danger of being misherded?

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for misherd. 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