mistalk

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To speak badly

   To speak badly; to stutter, garble one's words, mispronounce words, substitute incorrect words, or make other such errors.

   • The dictater frequently misreads or mistalks a word. If the error is plain, and leaves no room for doubt that it is an error, don't copy that error.
   • Freud merges the two communicative scenes in his writing : the restricted clinical one with its specificity of talking, mistalking, listening , mislistening, and the larger public one of writing and reading.
   • Amazed, the audience looked at each other. What had come over their favorite storyteller to mistalk like that?
2. 2

   To talk inappropriately, misleadingly, mistakenly, or otherwise untruely.

   • I don't aim to mistalk ye. I jest want to tell ye how it was.
   • For 11 months he's been mistalking about my record, misdirecting it, misstating it.
3. 3

   The act or content of mistalking.

   • What you type gets sent across the network immediately. That means your talkee sees exactly what you type, including mistakes and "mistalks," so think before you type!
   • The noise came nearer the door and Mian Sahib saw the thrashing of the boy-servant whose crime was mistalk.
   • You are the normal child of the deaf that was told all the mistalk by his mother.

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