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mishyphen

verb

Etymology

From mis- + hyphen.

  1. derived from ὑφέν
  2. prefixed as mishyphen — “mis + hyphen”

Definitions

  1. Synonym of mishyphenate.

    • The Folio prints this with these errors of transposition and mishyphening: ' the honey-heauy-dew.'
    • Of the tentative way in which the President's medical attendant's name has been spelled and misspelled and dissevered and mishyphened, we shall say nothing.
    • Every word omitted, inserted, mishyphened at the end of a line in the printed copy; but spelled, or in any manner changed from the printed copy if the entire word is written in one line in conformity with must be penalized.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for mishyphen. 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