mispeg
verbEtymology From mis- + peg.
1
To incorrectly ascribe a value or attribute to.
- This imitation Dahomey trifle mispegged at two hundred francs at its debut, falls to forty, hovers at fifty and ends up in the hands of a souvenir bug.1952, John Crowe Ransom, The Kenyon Review - Volume 14, page 143:
- Those bureaucrats tended to mispeg Belanger as a flaming radical with a penchant for spitting into a headwind .1990, Hank Nuwer, Broken Pledges: The Deadly Rite of Hazing, page 40:
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- In addition, the activism by youth of various colors is mispegged under a single ethnic label, Latino.2000, Z Magazine - Volume 13, page 61: