misguess

verb

Etymology

From mis- + guess.

  1. derived from *gʰed-✻ — “to take, seize”
  2. derived from *getaną✻ — “to get”
  3. derived from *gitisōną✻ — “to guess”
  4. derived from *getsa✻
  5. derived from getse
  6. inherited from gesse
  7. inherited from gessen
  8. prefixed as misguess — “mis + guess”

Definitions

  1. To guess incorrectly

    • Sanborn had not come this far to misguess now.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for misguess. 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