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misrecall

verb

Etymology

From mis- + recall.

  1. derived from callis — “path”
  2. derived from caulae — “sheepfold”
  3. derived from calwe — “bald”
  4. formed as recall — “re- + call”
  5. prefixed as misrecall — “mis + recall”

Definitions

  1. To recall incorrectly.

    • That was the same slogan that Vice President Dan Quayle famously misrecalled in 1989 when he said, “What a waste it is to lose one’s mind.”

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for misrecall. 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