mislippen

verb — 2 senses

mislippen

verb

Etymology From mis- + lippen.

2

Northern England, Scotland, UK, Dialectal To suspect; to be suspicious of.

  • I thought it best to slip out quietly though, in case she should mislippen something of what we're gaun to do— [...]1816, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter IV, in Tales of My Landlord, […], volume I (The Black Dwarf), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for William Blackwood, […]; London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 75:

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