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mishear

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Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
12
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/mɪsˈhɪə(ɹ)/

Definition of mishear

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (ambitransitive)To hear wrongly.
    “I misheard when she asked for mints, and gave her mince instead.”
    “And if any mishear or misutter it, even that also serves, since it warns.”
    “When a slickly handsome drug dealer named Legrand (Michael Beach, in the film's most seductive performance), first meets the teen-ager on the playground, he mishears the name Manigault. "Did he say Nanny Goat?" Legrand asks, explaining the nickname in one quick, witty stroke.”
    “Our report of a relative who, as a child, thought the classic version of the Lord's Prayer began "Our father, a chart in heaven, Harold be thy name" stated that this type of mistake is known as an eggcorn. A number of readers have suggested that instances like this in which a whole phrase rather than just a word is misheard, should be called mondegreens rather than eggcorns.”
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verb

  1. (ambitransitive)To hear wrongly.
    “I misheard when she asked for mints, and gave her mince instead.”
    “And if any mishear or misutter it, even that also serves, since it warns.”
    “When a slickly handsome drug dealer named Legrand (Michael Beach, in the film's most seductive performance), first meets the teen-ager on the playground, he mishears the name Manigault. "Did he say Nanny Goat?" Legrand asks, explaining the nickname in one quick, witty stroke.”
    “Our report of a relative who, as a child, thought the classic version of the Lord's Prayer began "Our father, a chart in heaven, Harold be thy name" stated that this type of mistake is known as an eggcorn. A number of readers have suggested that instances like this in which a whole phrase rather than just a word is misheard, should be called mondegreens rather than eggcorns.”
  2. To misunderstand.

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Etymology

From Middle English misheren, from Old English mishȳran, mishīeran (“to hear amiss, not listen to, disobey”), equivalent to mis- + hear.

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