Reverse Dictionary: MISG – MISZ

MISGIVING – adjectives
– COMPUNCTIOUS having or feeling compunction; pricking to the conscience; causing regret or misgiving; remorseful, repentant …1605
misgiving – nouns
– GAIN-GIVING † a misgiving …1602 obs. exc. arch.
 
MISGROWN – person
– BAGLIN a puny or misgrown child …1930 Sc.
 
MISHANDLE – verbs
– BUGGER UP to ruin, to spoil; to damage; to make a mess of; to muddle, to mishandle …1891
 
MISHAP – nouns
– ACCIDENCE † mishap, chance; fortuitous circumstance …1393
– HAPS an event or occurrence which befalls one; a chance, accident, happening; often, an unfortunate event, mishap, mischance …c1205
– MISANTER, MISANTER a misadventure, a mishap …Bk1903 Eng. dial.  
– MISCOMFORTUNE a misfortune, mishap …Bk1903 Eng. dial.  
– MISCOMHAP † a misfortune, mishap …Bk1903 Eng. dial.  
– SITHE † mishap, misfortune, trouble …c1205
– UNILIMP † misfortune, mishap …c1200
– UNLIMP † misfortune, mishap …c1200
– UNSITHE † mishap, misfortune …a1250
– UNTIMING † mishap, ill fortune …c1250
 
MISINFORM – verbs
– FILL to fool; to provide with misinformation …1968 Amer. dial.
– FILL UP to fool; to provide with misinformation …1879 Amer. dial.
– MISLEAR to misinform; to lead astray …1807 Sc. & Eng. dial.  
– THROW ONE AN ARRE to misinform, to mislead …1938 Amer. dial.
 
MISINFORMATION – nouns
– OIL lies, misinformation …1930s sl.
– PHONY JAZZ a lie; a trick; deliberate misinformation …1950s US Black sl.
 
MISLAY – verbs
– MISPUT to lose, to mislay, to misplace; to mislead …1923 Amer. dial.
 
MISLEAD – nouns
– FALLIBILITY liability to err or to mislead …1634
– LEG PULL an attempt to mislead or deceive others in a playful way or as a joke; a trick or hoax …1893
– SHUCKING AND JIVING a not speaking or behaving seriously in an attempt to mislead …1966 US Black sl.
mislead – verbs
– BEDWELE † to mislead, to lead into error …c1205
– BEDWELEN † to mislead, to lead into error …c1205
– BLOW UP to mislead, to delude …Bk1911 Sc.
– BLUFF to confuse, to mislead or deter by a show of confidence or superiority; to fob off …L18
– DRAW A PERSON’S LEG † to try to deceive or mislead another person in a playful way or as a joke …1851 Sc.
– DUST to confuse, to mislead, to dupe …1814 sl.
– DUST THE EYES OF to confuse, to mislead, to dupe by making ‘blind’; to the actual facts of the case …1867 sl.
– DWELL † to lead into error; to mislead, to delude; to stun, to stupefy …c888
– FILL to hoax or mislead …1880 Amer. sl.
– FILL UP to hoax or mislead …1880 Amer. sl.
– FORLEAD † to seduce, to mislead …c1000
– GAME to deceive, to mislead, to trick …1963 US sl.
– JACK AROUND to mislead …Bk1995 US sl.
– JARGOOZLE to mislead; to lead astray; to bamboozle …Bk1896 sl.
– LOAD to deceive, to trick, to mislead …1906 Amer. dial.
– LOAD UP to deceive, to trick, to mislead …1883 Amer. dial.
– MISGUIDE to mislead, to lead astray …1787 Sc. & Eng. dial. 
– MISPUT to lose, to mislay, to misplace; to mislead …1923 Amer. dial.
– RUN A SANDY ON to trick, to cheat, to dupe; to mislead, to delude …1914 Amer. dial.
– RUN A SANDY OVER to trick, to cheat, to dupe; to mislead, to delude …1923 Amer. dial.
– SANDBAG to feign weakness in order to mislead an opponent …20C US sl.
– SEND ON A HOMBUG to deliberately mislead someone by misdirecting them …1950s US Black sl.
– SEND ON A HUMBUG to deliberately mislead someone by misdirecting them …1950s US Black sl.
– SEND ON A MERRY-GO-ROUND to deliberately mislead someone by misdirecting them …1950s US Black sl.
– SEND ON A TRIP to deliberately mislead someone by misdirecting them …1950s US Black sl.
– SHIT to tease, attempt to deceive or mislead …1934 sl.
– SHUCK to cheat, to deceive, to trick, to mislead someone …1959 Amer. dial.
– SILE † to deceive, to beguile or mislead a person …1508 chiefly Sc.
– THROW DUST IN THE EYES OF to confuse, to mislead, to dupe by making ‘blind’ to the actual facts of the case …1612
– THROW ONE AN ARRE to misinform, to mislead …1938 Amer. dial.
 
MISLEADING – adjectives
– DECEPTIOUS †* that tends to deceive, cheat, or mislead; deceptive, deluding, illusory …1606
– FALLACE †* fallacious; deceitful; deceptive, misleading …1393
– FALLACIOUS of things: deceptive, misleading …1651
misleading – nouns 
– ABUSEMENT † an abusing or misleading …1819
– BLA pretentious or misleading talk …1918 sl., orig. US
– BLAH pretentious or misleading talk …1918 sl., orig. US
– BLAH-BLAH pretentious or misleading talk …1918 sl., orig. US
– FALLATION † a fallacy, a deceptive or misleading argument …a1568
– MOODY pretentious or misleading talk …1934 Brit. sl.  
– MUMBO JUMBO pretentious or misleading talk …1896 sl.
 
MISLED – adjectives
– MISGUIDED misled, deceived; erring, badly trained …1823 Sc. 
– ON THE WRONG TRAM misled about a thing; following the wrong course of action …Bk1999 Aust. sl.
 
MISMANAGE – verbs
– BLUNK to bungle; to spoil a thing; to mismanage …Bk1911 Sc.
– DAIDLE † to mismanage; to do any work in a slovenly way …1808 Sc.
– ILL-GUIDE to mismanage …1845 Sc.
– MARGULLIE † to disfigure, to mar, to mangle; to mismanage, to abuse; to mar any business; to bungle …1721 Sc.
– MARTYR to bungle, to mismanage, to confuse, to spoil; to work in a dirty and clumsy manner …Bk1905 Sc.
– MISCOOK to mismanage any business, to bungle …1825 Sc.  
– MISGUIDE to mismanage; to waste, to squander; to mis-spend …1792 Sc. 
– MURGULLY † to disfigure, to mar, to mangle; to mismanage, to abuse …1721 Sc.
 
MISMANAGED – adjectives
– SHAMBOLIC inept, mismanaged …L20 colloq.
 
MISMANAGEMENT – nouns
– MALMANAGEMENT † mismanagement …1776 Sc.
 
MISMANAGING – person
– DAGE a trollop; a dirty, mismanaging woman, a slut, a tatterdemalion …1825 Sc.
 
MISPLACE – verbs
– MISPUT to lose, to mislay, to misplace; to mislead …1923 Amer. dial.
 
MISPRONOUNCE – verbs
– MISCALL to mispronounce in reading; to read imperfectly …1853 Sc. & Amer. dial.
 
MISPRONUNCIATION – nouns
– TONGUE-TWIST mispronunciation …1898
 
MISREPRESENT – verbs
– BUNK to employ misrepresentation; to defraud; to cheat; to establish confidential relations with intent to abuse the influence so acquired …Bk1914 criminals’ sl. 
– FAKE to misrepresent …1892 colloq.
– FIDDLE to misrepresent or fraudulently alter …1970 sl.
 
MISREPRESENTATION – nouns
– BULL misrepresentation; a lie; deception …Bk1914 criminals’ sl. 
 
MISS – verbs
– BALK, BAULK † to miss by error or inadvertence …1579
– DESIDERATE † to desire with a sense of want or regret; to feel a desire or longing for; to feel the want of; to desire, to want, to miss …1646
​- FAULT † to fail or omit to do something; to miss one’s aim …1522
– LAME TALE an excuse; a false story; a misrepresentation …Bk1902 Eng. dial.
– MANKIE to fail; to miss …1882 Sc.
– MISS EVERY HAIR OF HIS HEAD to miss anyone very much …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– WANT † to feel the loss of, to miss …1623
 
MISSED – adjectives
– MUFFED bungled; clumsily spoilt, missed …c1860 Brit. sl.
– NIBBY-GIBBY narrowly escaped or missed …1854 Eng. dial.
 
MISSHAPEN – adjectives
– ABNORMOUS irregular, misshapen …1742
– SHAMBLE ungainly, awkward; misshapen, esp. of the legs…E17 rare
– THRAWN twisted, distorted, misshapen; uneven; of the brow: knitted …1721 Sc.
– WANSHAPEN † misshapen, deformed …a1300
misshapen – nouns
– NEEP anything ugly or misshapen …1866 Sc. 
 
MISSILE – nouns
– AUNTIE an antimissile missile …20C US Air Force usage
– DINGBAT something thrown or fired with force; a bullet; a cannonball; a flying missile …1877 Amer. dial.
– EJACULATION † the act of hurling missiles; the spouting out of water …1610
– FACE-SHOT an air-to-air guided missile …1991 US sl.
– GANYIE † an arrow, or similar missile, esp. a crossbow-bolt …c1425 Sc.
– PACKET a bullet or missile …1910s sl., orig. military
– POP to throw or shoot a missile; to aim or impel an object …1827 Sc.
missile – verbs
– ASSHOLE of a guided missile: to strike a jet aircraft squarely from behind …1986 US military sl.
– PALT 1. † to strike with repeated blows of missiles; to assail with missiles …1579
2. † ​to deliver repeated blows; to discharge missiles …1606
– POP to strike with a missile, to pelt …1894 Sc.
– WALK A CAT BACK to trace a missile back to its launch site …1991 US Gulf war usage
 
MISSING – adjectives
– ADRIFT missing …L18 sl.
– AMISSING missing, wanting …L16 chiefly Sc.
– AWOL missing; absent without leave …1920 Brit. sl., orig. military
missing – verbs 
– GO FOR A BURTON of a person or thing: to be missing, ruined, or destroyed …1946 sl.
– WANT † to be a defaulter; to be absent or missing …1435
missing – phrases
– UP IN NELLY’S ROOM BEHIND THE WALLPAPER the presumed location of something missing or lost …2003 Ireland sl.
 
MISSION – nouns
– MISH a mission …20C Brit. public schools’ usage
 
MISSIONARY – person
– BIBLE-BACK a sanctimonious, holier-than-thou person; hence, a clergyman, missionary, or proselytizer …1840 sl.
– BLACK ROBE esp. among North American Indians: a Christian priest, esp. a missionary …1811 Can.
– MISH a missionary …L19 Brit. sl.
– MISSION STIFF a missionary worker …L19 US sl.
– SOUL-SNATCHER a preacher, a missionary …L19 sl.
– SOUL-SNAVELLER a preacher, a missionary …L19 sl.
 
MISSISSIPPI – nouns
– AL a mythical alligator of the Mississippi River …1938 Amer. dial.
– BIG MUDDY the Mississippi River …1846 US
– CHIMNEYVILLE Jackson, Mississippi after it had been burned to the extent that all that was left of many buildings were their brick chimneys; a Union army term …US Civil War usage
– OLD MUDDY the Mississippi or Missouri river …1846 US sl.
– SIP the state of Mississippi …1970 US sl.
Mississippi – person 
– ALLIGATOR an inhabitant or native of the Mississippi region …1837
– BEAT OFFICER in Alabama & Mississippi: a local official serving a particular beat (the principal subdivision of a county) …1846 US
– MUD-CAT (jocular or derogatory) an inhabitant of Mississippi …1872 Amer. dial.
– MUD-RAT (jocular or derogatory) an inhabitant of Mississippi …1981 Amer. dial.
– TADPOLE a native of Mississippi …1845 US sl.
 
MISSOURI – nouns
– BIG MUDDY the Missouri river …1825 US
– LITTLE KOREA Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri; based on a comparison of the climates …1968 US sl.
– MIZZOO Missouri; the Missouri River …1899 US sl.
– OLD MUDDY the Mississippi or Missouri river …1846 US sl.
– ST. JO Saint Joseph, Missouri …M19 US tramps’ sl.
– ST. JOE Saint Joseph, Missouri …M19 US tramps’ sl.
– ST. LOO Saint Louis, Missouri …L19 US sl.
– ST. LOOIE Saint Louis, Missouri …L19 US sl.
Missouri – person 
– PIKE a person from Missouri …1854 Amer. dial.
– PIKER a person from Missouri …1907 Amer. dial.
– PUKE a native of Missouri …M19 Amer. colloq.
 
MISSPEAK – verbs
– MISCALL to speak incorrectly, to misspeak …1938 Amer. dial.
– MISMEAN to misspeak, to make a mistake …1899 Amer. dial.
 
MISSPEND – verbs
– MIS-SPENE † to misspend, misemploy …c1300
 
MISSTATE – verbs
– BLANDER to babble; to waste time in gossiping; to spread a report or calumny; to exaggerate or misstate …19C Sc.
 
MIST, MISTINESS, MISTY – adjectives
– AND sea-mist …1865 Eng. dial.
– BANGY of weather: drizzling, overcast; misty; stormy …1790 Eng. dial.
– CALIGINOUS misty, dim, murky; obscure, dark …1548 now arch.
– DAGGIE drizzling, moist, misty …1825 Sc.
– DAGGING of the weather: wet, drizzly, misty, rainy …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– DAGGLY of the weather: wet, drizzly, misty, rainy …1869 Eng. dial.
– DAGGY of the weather: wet, drizzly, misty, rainy …1808 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– DAMPISH † vaporous, foggy, misty …1577
– DAMPY † full of vapour or mist; foggy …1600
– DINGY misty, rainy …1879 Eng. dial.
– FAT * of air, mist, etc.: charged with moisture or odours …1659
– FOGGISH † somewhat foggy or misty …1686
– HAARY misty, foggy …1818 Sc.
– HAGGY misty from the frost …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– HAITCHY misty …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– HARL(E) a mist, a fog or drizzle coming up with the tide from the sea …1721 Eng. dial.
– HAURY misty, foggy …1818 Sc.
– MISTY-MOISTY of the weather: misty, foggy; threatening rain …1856 Amer. dial.
– MIZZLETY misty, drizzling …1909 Amer. dial.
– MIZZLY misty, drizzling …1899 Amer. dial.
– NEBULOSE cloudy, misty, indistinct …1799
– NEBULOSE †* resembling a cloud or mist; inclined to be foggy or misty …c1420
– NEBULOUS * cloudy, foggy, misty, dank …1386
– RAFTY misty, wet, cold, draughty …Bk19C Eng. dial.
– RAGGLIE wet and misty …1955 Sc.
– RAGGY misty, stormy and cold, with drizzling rain …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– RAWK misty, foggy …B1900 Sc.
– RAWKY misty, foggy, damp, raw and cold …1790 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– RAWMY misty …B1900 Eng. dial.
– ROKY foggy, misty …LME now Sc. & Eng. dial.
– SCAUMY misty, hazy; of an imperfect or disagreeable colour …1824 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– SCUDDY misty, showery, foggy …B1900 Eng. dial.
– STRUNTY misty, foggy …1879 Sc.& Eng. dial.
– THAGGY thick and misty …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– THICK of the weather: cloudy, misty, foggy …1895 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– THONKY dank, misty, rainy …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– TROUBLY † of air, etc.: misty, murky, cloudy, not clear …c1380
mist, mistiness, misty – nouns
– DAG a wet fog, a mist …1808 Eng. dial.
– DAMP † visible vapour; fog, mist …1601
– GUM † mist, vapour …1513 Sc.
– HAAR a wet mist or fog; esp. applied on the east coast of England and Scotland, from Lincolnshire northwards, to a cold sea-fog …1671 Eng. dial.
– HADDER a heavy mist or bank of fog …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– HAG a thick white mist or fog …1794 Eng. dial.
– HAZE-FIRE brilliantly luminous mist …1842
– JERRY a fog, or mist …1819 thieves’ sl.
– MAIDS-O’-MIST drifting wisps of mist, believed to be supernatural beings …1932 Sc.
– MIRK-DRIFE a fine driving snow or mist …Bk1903 Eng. dial.  
– MISK a mist, a fog …1881 Eng. dial. 
– MIZZLING a very fine rain, drizzle, mist …1899 Amer. dial.
– MOKE a mist, a fog; thick, close, foggy weather …1866 Eng. dial.
– MUG a mist, a fog; a light rain or drizzle; a dull, damp, or gloomy atmosphere …a1728 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– NEBULA fog, mist …1894
– NEBULE a cloud; a mist or fog …c1420
– NEBULOUSNESS cloudiness, mistiness …1653
– OOTHER a light morning mist or haze; the flickering haze that rises from the ground on a warm day …1818 Sc.
– OREGON DEW a light rain or mist; used ironically, a prolonged rain …1967  Amer. dial.
– OREGON MIST a light rain or mist; used ironically, a prolonged rain …1965 Amer. dial.
– OTTER-DRIZZLE a fine mist …1933 Amer. dial.
– PAN a heavy pall of mist …1908 Sc.
– PARL a thick mist, a fog …1818 Sc.
– PARLE a thick mist, a fog …1818 Sc.
– RABBIT DEW mist; the low mist that arises after a quick cool rain shower during very hot weather …1987 Amer. dial.
– RACK † driving mist or fog …a1300
– RAFT a damp mist …Bk19C Eng. dial.
– RAG fog, mist, accompanied by drizzling rain …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– RAGGER a light drifting mist; a drizzle …1908 Sc.
– RAGGLE a light drifting mist; a drizzle …1908 Sc.
– RAWK a mist, a sea fog …1854 Eng. dial.
– REEK a smoke-like vapour; steam, fog, mist; also, dust …1691 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– ROKE mist, fog; drizzle …ME now Sc. & Eng. dial.
– RUG drizzling rain; wet mist; also, wet weather …c1540 Sc.
– SCAM a film of vapour, a haze, mist, or shadow …1824 Sc.
– SCAUM a thin haze, a light, misty vapour …1824 Sc.
– SCOTCH DEW a mist …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– SCOTCH DRIZZLE a mist …1896 Eng. dial.
– SKEW a drizzling rain; a driving mist …1839 Eng. dial.
– SMIRR a drizzle or wet mist; a fog almost as heavy as a rain …1914 Amer. dial.
– SMUR, SMURR a drizzle or wet mist; a fog almost as heavy as a rain …1914 Amer. dial.
– THICKNESS fog, mist …1898 Sc.
– ULE a sultry heat, warm vapour, esp. mist rising from the ground or the sea on a warm day; heat from a fire …1866 Sc.
mist, mistiness, misty – verbs
– BEMIST to overtake with mist …1609
– DAMP † to envelop in a fog or mist …1629
– NEBULIZE * to reduce to a mist or spray …1872
– RAWK to grow misty; to become foggy …B1900 Eng. dial.
– REEK to emit vapour; to steam; to perspire; to be misty …1786 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– ROKE to be foggy or misty; to drizzle …E17 now Sc. & Eng. dial.
– SCAUM to envelope in a mist or haze; to shade …1871 Sc.
– SKEW to have the vision obstructed by mist …1842
 
MISTAKE – adjectives (also see MISTAKEN)
– MISTAKEFUL * full of mistakes …1880
– OFF THE TRACK misbehaving, making mistakes, being inconsistent …20C sl.
– OFF TRACK misbehaving, making mistakes, being inconsistent …20C sl.
mistake – nouns 
– APPLE-KNOCKER an error; a mistake; a blunder …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– BAD BREAK an error; a serious mistake; a blunder …1883 US
– BALK † a slip, a mistake, a blunder …c1430
– BARNABY an error; a mistake; a blunder …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– BARNEY an error, a mistake, a blunder; a piece of bad workmanship …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– BAULK † a slip, a mistake, a blunder …c1430
– BEEF a mistake …Bk1904 Amer. college sl.
– BEEFSTEAK a mistake, a blunder …1950 Amer. dial.
– BISH a mistake …c1925 UK school usage
– BLOB a mistake, an error, a blunder …1900 Amer. dial.
– BLOOMER a very great mistake; an error; a failure …1889 sl.
– BLUE a mistake or error, a blunder …1941 Aust. & NZ sl.
– BLUNDERHEAD an error; a mistake; a blunder …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– BLUP a misfortune or mistake owing to want of foresight …Bk1911 Sc.
– BOBBLE a mistake, an error, a blunder …1887 Eng. dial.
– BONE an error; a mistake; a blunder …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– BONEHEAD an error; a mistake; a blunder …1918 Amer. dial.
– BONEHEAD BUTCH an error; a mistake; a blunder …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– BONEHEADER an error; a mistake; a blunder …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– BONEHEAD MOVE an error; a mistake; a blunder …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– BONEHEAD PLAY an error; a mistake; a blunder …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– BONER a stupid mistake …E20 sl., orig.
– BOOB an error, a blunder, a foolish mistake …1959 sl.
– BOO-BOO a foolish mistake …E20 sl., orig. US
– BOOB STUNT an error; a mistake; a blunder …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– BREAK an error, blunder or mistake, often in a social situation; an inappropriate act or word, a faux pas …1884 Amer. dial.
– BREAKER an error; a mistake; a blunder …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– BRODIE an error; a mistake; a blunder …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– BULL an error; a mistake; a blunder …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– BUST an error; a mistake; a blunder …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– BUTCH a mistake, a blunder, an error; in radio & TV: an error made in delivering lines …1942 US sl.
– CLANGER a faux pas, a mistake, esp. one that attracts attention …1948 sl.
– CLINKER a mistake or fault, esp. a wrong note in music …1934 US & Can. sl.
– CLUCK an error; a mistake; a blunder …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– CROPPER an error; a mistake; a blunder …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– DEFAULT † a failure in what is attempted; an error, mistake …c1386
– DUMB PLAY an error; a mistake; a blunder …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– DUMB TRICK an error; a mistake; a blunder …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– DUMMY an error; a mistake; a blunder …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– FAUX a mistake …1980s US college sl.
– FLOATER a mistake, a ‘bloomer’ …1913 sl.
– FOOL ACT an error; a mistake; a blunder …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– FOOL MISTAKE an error; a mistake; a blunder …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– FOOL MOVE an error; a mistake; a blunder …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– FOUL an error; a mistake; a blunder …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– FOX’S PAW a mistake, a blunder (French faux pas) …L18
– GAFU a colossal mistake; a God Almighty Fuck-Up …1998 NZ sl.
– GOOF a mistake …1960s US sl.
– GRANNY a mistake, an error …1975 Amer. dial.
– HOWLER a funny mistake …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– HUMMER a minor mistake …1959 US sl.
– IGNOTISM † a mistake due to ignorance …1737
– JEOFAIL † a mistake or error generally …1546
– LEFT-TURN an error; a mistake; a blunder …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– MASH a muddle, a mistake …1793 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– MESSY BOBBLE an error; a mistake; a blunder …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– MISBOBBLE a mistake, an error, a blunder …1912  Amer. dial.
– MISCOBOBBLE a mistake, an error, a blunder …1968 Amer. dial.
– MISCUE an error; a mistake; a blunder …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– MISCUEBOBBLE an error; a mistake; a blunder …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– MISDEAL a mistake …L19 US sl.
– MISDO a mistake …Bk1903 Eng. dial.  
– MISFIRE an error; a mistake; a blunder …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– MISKEN a mistake, misunderstanding …Bk1903 Eng. dial.  
– MISKUBOBBLE a mistake, an error, a blunder …1911 Amer. dial.
– MISLICK a poorly delivered or badly aimed stroke or blow; hence a mistake, or error …1859 Amer. dial.
– MISS an error; a mistake; a blunder …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– MIS-SCRIPT * a mistake in writing; a misspelling …1817-19
– MISSMENT an error; a mistake; a blunder …a1863 Eng. dial.
– MOPPLE a blunder, a mistake …B1900 Eng. dial.
– MOUSETAKE an error; a mistake; a blunder …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– MUFF an error; a mistake; a blunder …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– ODD NUMBER a mistake, an error of judgement, a disadvantage …1897 Eng. dial.
– PENNY BANGER a mistake, a blunder…1958 rhyming sl. for ‘clanger’
– PIGS mistakes, a mess …20C Royal Air Force sl.
– RAFFLE a mistake …19C rhyming sl. for ‘ricket’ (raffle ticket)
– RAFFLE TICKET a mistake …19C rhyming sl. for ‘ricket’
– RAFFLINGS mistakes; miscalculations …Bk19C Eng. dial.
– SCREWY MOVE an error; a mistake; a blunder …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– SCREWY PLAY an error; a mistake; a blunder …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– SKEWGEE an error; a mistake; a blunder …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– SLIP-UP an error; a mistake; a blunder …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– TRIP-UP an error; a mistake; a blunder …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– WRONGER an error; a mistake; a blunder …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– WRONGGO a mistake, error, or lie …1930s sl., orig. US
– WRONG NUMBER a mistaken idea …1920s US sl.
– WRONGO a mistake, error, or lie …1930s sl., orig. US
– WRONG RIFF a mistake, a blunder …1930s US Black sl.
mistake – person
– GOOF someone who makes mistakes or wastes time …1950s Amer. sl.
mistake – verbs (includes MISTAKEN)
– BACK THE WRONG HORSE to be wrong, to be mistaken; to make an inappropriate choice …Bk1942 Amer. sl. 
– BARK UP THE WRONG TREE to choose the wrong person to deal with, or the wrong course of action; to mistake an aim …Bk2004 Amer. colloq. 
– BE ALL WET to be wrong, to be mistaken …Bk1942 Amer. sl. 
– BEEF to make a mistake …Bk1904 Amer. college sl.
– BE FULL OF PRUNES to be wrong, to be mistaken …Bk1942 Amer. sl. 
– BE IN THE WRONG BOX to be wrong, to be mistaken …Bk1942 Amer. sl. 
– BE IN THE WRONG PEW to be wrong, to be mistaken …Bk1942 Amer. sl. 
– BE OFF YOUR EGGS to make a mistake, to be on the wrong tack …1844 Sc.
– BLOB to make a mistake …1900 Amer. dial.
– BLOW to make a mistake …Bk1995 US sl.
– BLOW IT BIG TIME to make a terrible mistake …Bk1995 US sl.
– BLOW ONE’S STACK to get excited and make a series of mistakes …Bk1944 service sl.
– BOBBLE to make a slight turn or twist from a direct or straight line; hence; to make a break or mistake …1908 Amer. dial.
– BOOB to make a foolish mistake …M20 sl.
– BREAK THE MOLASSES JUG to make a mistake and come to grief …19C Amer.
– CHUMP OUT to make a mistake; to blunder …1960s US Black sl.
– COME A GUTZER to come a cropper; to make a mistake …1918 Air Force sl.
– COUNT ONE’S EGGS to be wrong, to be mistaken …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– CRACK THE BELL to fail, to muddle things, to make a mistake, to ruin it …1909 Cockneys’ sl.
– CUT A HOG to make an embarrassing mistake; to blunder, to make a mess of things …1935 US Black sl.
– DROP A CLANGER to make a social faux pas, to make a mistake that attracts attention …1942 
– DROP A GOOLIE to make a mistake …1961 UK sl.
– DROP AN OAR IN THE WATER to make a mistake …1998 UK sl.
– DROP ONE’S CANDY to make a big blunder or serious mistake; to do something to cause the failure of a plan …Bk1905 Amer. dial.
– DULL to make a mistake, miscalculation, or stupid blunder …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– FALL DOWN (ON) to make a bad mistake or error; to blunder …c1935 colloq.
– FALL FLAT ON ONE’S FACE to make an embarrassing mistake, failed attempt, catastrophic decline, etc. …1970s Amer. sl.
– FALL ON ONE’S FACE to make an embarrassing mistake, failed attempt, catastrophic decline, etc. …1970s Amer. sl.
– FAULT to make a mistake, to be in error, to blunder …1530 obs.
– FAUX to make a mistake …1980s US college sl.
– FIRE INTO THE WRONG FLOCK to be mistaken; to blunder; to ‘bark up the wrong tree’ …1835 Amer. dial.
– FLUNK to fail; to blunder; to make a mistake …L19 US sl.
– GET IN BAD to make a mistake or false move …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– GET THE WRONG END OF THE TETHER to make a mistake; to misunderstand …1884 Eng. dial.
– GET THE WRONG BULL BY THE HORNS to be wrong, to be mistaken …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– GET THE WRONG PIG BY THE EAR to make a mistake …1546 colloq.
– GET THE WRONG PIG BY THE TAIL to make a mistake in selection …Bk1905 Amer. dial.
– GET THE WRONG SOW BY THE EAR to be wrong, to be mistaken …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– GOOF to blunder, to make a mistake …1940s sl.
– GO OFF THE RAILS to blunder, to make a mistake …L19 sl.
– GOOF IT to blunder, to make a mistake …1940s sl.
– GOOF UP to make a big mistake …Bk1995 US sl.
– HALLUCINATE † to be deceived, to suffer illusion, to entertain false notions, to blunder, to mistake …1652 obs. or arch.
– HARPOON A BOTTLE-NOSE to make a gross mistake …1849-50 Ireland
– HAVE ANOTHER GUESS COMING to be wrong, to be mistaken …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– HAVE BEEN READING BOOKS to be wrong, to be mistaken …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– HAVE THE WRONG SLANT to be wrong, to be mistaken …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– LET THE HOGS OUT vb. to make an embarrassing mistake …1954 Amer. dial.
– LET THE MULES OUT to make an embarrassing mistake …1954 Amer. dial.
– MAFFLE to blunder, to make mistakes, to muddle …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– MAKE A BLUE to make a mistake or error; to blunder …1961 Aust. & NZ sl.
– MAKE A BUST to make an error in judgement; to be wrong or mistaken …1965 Amer. dial.
– MIFF to blunder; to make a mistake; to botch something …1967 Amer. dial.
– MISDOUBT to mistake, to be mistaken …1891 Sc.  
– MISKEN to mistake, not to recognize, to be ignorant of; to ignore, to disown, to refuse to notice …1660 Sc. & Eng. dial.  
– MISMEAN to misspeak, to make a mistake …1899 Amer. dial.
– MISS STAYS to fail, to make a mistake …1907 Amer. dial.
– MISSTAY to fail, to make a mistake …1916 Amer. dial.
– MISS THE CUSHION † to miss the mark; to make a mistake; to err; to fail in an attempt …c1525
– PAY ONE’S DUES to pay for making a mistake …1960s Amer. sl.
– PLAY WHALEY to blunder, to fail; to play havoc with something; to spoil, to ruin; to make a mistake …1897 Amer. dial.
– PULL A BONER to make a stupid mistake …US sl.
– PULL A BUST to make an error in judgement; to be wrong or mistaken …1965 Amer. dial.
– PULL THE WRONG PIG BY THE EAR to make a mistake …1546 colloq.
– PULL THE WRONG SOW BY THE EAR to make a mistake …1546 colloq.
– PUT ONE’S FOOT IN ONE’S MOUTH to make an embarrassing verbal mistake, discomfiting oneself as well as the hearer …1940s sl.
– PUT THE SADDLE ON THE WRONG HORSE to be wrong, to be mistaken …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– SHOOT AT A PIGEON AND KILL A CROW to blunder wilfully; to make a mistake …1869
– SHOOT ONE’S GRANDMOTHER to make a great mistake; to be disappointed; to think you have discovered what was well known before …1855 Amer.
– SKID(S) to blunder, to make a mistake, to decline …1920s US sl.
– SLIP UP to make a mistake …1855 US sl.
– TAKE A STINK FOR A NOSEGAY to be extremely gullible; to mistake egregiously …B1900
– UPTRIP to cause someone to make a mistake or commit a fault …1856 Amer. dial.
mistake – interjections/phrases
– HAIR IN ONE’S NECK, A a hold over someone, generally arising from a mistake or shortcoming which can be used against one’s reputation, etc. …1818 Sc.
– MY BAD used to acknowledge responsibility for a mistake …L20 US colloq.
– OOPSIE DOODLES! exclamation used when making a mistake, tripping, etc.
 
MISTAKEN – adjectives
– ALL WET entirely confused or wrong; mistaken …1923
– FALLIBLE of persons or their faculties: liable to be deceived or mistaken; liable to err …1430
– MISAGAFT mistaken, misgiven …1691 Eng. dial.  
– OFFBEAT adj. mistaken, wrong, in error …1958 US sl.
– OFFEN ONE’S BOX crazy; foolishly wrong, mistaken …1903 Amer. dial.
– OFF IT mistaken …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– OFF ONE’S BASE insane, crazy, confused, muddled, mistaken …1891 US sl.
– OFF ONE’S BOX crazy; foolishly wrong; mistaken …1903 Amer. dial.
– OFF ONE’S CABASE mistaken (cabase = head) …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– OFF ONE’S EGGS straying; hence, wide of the mark, incorrect, inaccurate, mistaken, in error …1792 Sc.
– OFF THE RAILS errant, mistaken …L19 sl.
– OUT OF ONE’S BOX crazy, insane; foolishly wrong, mistaken …1966 Amer. dial.
– UP THE POLE muddled, confused, wrong, in error, mistaken …L19 sl.
mistaken – adverbs 
– ALL OUT mistaken …Bk1898 Sc. sl.
mistaken – nouns 
– WANTROKING † despair; false or mistaken expectation …c1315
mistaken – person 
– FALLIBLE * one who is mistaken …1705
mistaken – verbs 
– HAVE ANOTHER GUESS COMING to be wrong or mistaken …1942 Amer. dial.
– HAVE THE WRONG PIG BY THE EAR to take an incorrect view; to arrive at the wrong conclusion, solution, etc.; to be mistaken …1536
– PLAY A DEAD ONE to waste one’s time; to act mistakenly …M19 sl.
– SHOOT ONE’S GRANDMOTHER to be mistaken, or to be disappointed; to imagine oneself you have discovered what was well known before …1855 sl.
mistaken – phrases 
– IT UNGANGS ME I am deceived; I am mistaken …1768 Sc. obs.
 
MISTAKENLY – adverbs
– ADWOLE † in error, erroneously, mistakenly …a1250
 
MISTLETOE – nouns
– MISSEL † mistletoe …a1425
 
MISTREAT – verbs
– BUNGO to mistreat severely; to inflict injury on …1980s US college sl.
– DO A NUMBER ON to mistreat someone very badly; to put someone in a very bad situation …M20 US sl.
– DO ONE DIRT to deceive, to mistreat, to treat meanly, to harm one, to injure, esp. underhandedly or by secret means …1897 Amer. dial.
– DO ONE DIRTY to deceive, to mistreat, to treat meanly, to harm one, to injure, esp. underhandedly or by secret means …1906 Amer. dial.
– GOOF to mistreat, to victimize …1950s US sl.
– MISLIST to mistreat …1845 Amer. dial.
– SHIT ON to treat with contempt, to insult; to mistreat …1624 sl.
 
MISTREATMENT – nouns
– ROYAL SHAFT monumental mistreatment …1983 US sl.
 
MISTRESS – adjectives
– POLLED-UP living with a mistress or concubine …L19 Brit. sl.
mistress – nouns
– KEEPING † the maintaining of a mistress or lover; the fact of condition of being so maintained …1675
mistress – person 
– ABANDONED WOMAN a wanton; a mistress …19C sl.
– ALBERTINE an adroit, calculating, business-like mistress …L19 sl.
– AMMUNITION WIFE a mistress …World War II Amer. sl.
– AUTEM MORT a mistress, as in a woman who cohabits with a man, or accompanies a mendicant villain on his travels and his crimes …M16 criminals’ sl.
– AUTEM MOT, AUTEM MOTT a mistress, as in a woman who cohabits with a man, or accompanies a mendicant villain on his travels and his crimes …M16 criminals’ sl.
– BABY a wanton; a mistress …L19 sl.
– BACHELOR’S WIFE a mistress …20C US sl.
– BACK-STREET WIFE a mistress …1993 US sl.
– BAILLE a mistress; a sweetheart …1825 Sc.
– BED-SISTER † the mistress of a married man in relation to his lawful wife …1297
– BEEBEE a White mistress; a prostitute  …1886 Anglo-Indian
– BELAMOUR † a loved one of either sex; a lady love; a sweetheart; a mistress …1590
– BELLY-PIECE † a concubine, a mistress, a prostitute, a whore …1632
– BIRD a young woman, a girlfriend; a mistress …c1550 UK sl.
– BIRDIE a maiden, a girl; a young woman; a girlfriend, a mistress …1876
– BIRD OF PARADISE a young woman, a girlfriend; a mistress …1784 UK sl.
– BIT OF JAM a sweetheart; a mistress …c1886 sl.
– BIT OF NONSENSE a mistress …1947 UK society usage
– BUTTERED BUN(S) † a harlot, a mistress; a prostitute …1679 sl.
– CANARY a mistress …18C sl.
– CANARY-BIRD a mistress …18C sl.
– CUSTOMER † a promiscuous woman; a mistress …1583
– DIDAPPER a mistress …1589
– DRUERY † one who is an object of love; a beloved person; a sweetheart; a mistress …c1315
– FAD-CATTLE easily accessible women; sexually available women; tarts, wantons, mistresses…19C sl. 
– FANCY a girlfriend; a mistress; a man’s sweetheart …E19 sl.
– FANCY PIECE orig. a gaudily dressed prostitute; later, a mistress, a ‘bit on the side’ …Brit. sl.
– FANCY-WOMAN a man’s sweetheart or mistress …1812 sl., esp. criminals’ usage
– FLAME a sweetheart, a mistress in keeping …E18 sl.
– GALIMAUFRY. GALLIMAUFREY, GALLIMAUFRY a mistress; a sexually appealing woman …c1597 UK sl.
– GAMESTER a mistress …1676 UK sl.
– GAY WOMAN a kept mistress or prostitute; one who is unchaste …Bk1913 sl.
– GENT a mistress; usually as ‘my gent’ …Bk1904 sl.
– GIMMER † a mistress; a low woman …Bk1888 Eng. dial.
– GIXIE † an affected, mincing woman; a wanton wench; a mistress …1641
– HACKNEY LADY † a prostitute; a mistress …1678
– INAMORATA a female lover, mistress, sweetheart …1651
– INAMORETTA † a female lover, mistress, sweetheart …1709 
– JAM a sweetheart; a mistress …c1880 sl.
– JAM-TART a wife or mistress …19C sl.
– KEEP-MISS a woman supported as a paramour; a kept mistress …1923 Sc.
– KITTOCK a familiar or disrespectful term for a girl or young woman; esp. a woman of loose character; a wanton, an unchaste woman; a mistress, a concubine …c1470 Sc.
– LADY a woman who is the object of chivalrous devotion; a mistress …c1374
– LADY-BIRD a nice, ladylike, kept mistress …17C sl.
– LADY OF PLEASURE a prostitute; a mistress or female lover …M17 euphemism 
– LADY OF THE LAKE † a prostitute; a kept mistress …1678
– LANDLADY †* a mistress …1600
– LEMAN one who is loved unlawfully; an unlawful lover or mistress; in later use, chiefly applied to the female sex …c1275 arch.
– LEVERET † a mistress …1617
– LIE-BY † a concubine, a mistress …a1656 obs. exc. Sc. & Eng. dial.
– LIMMER an unchaste, loose, or immoral woman; a mistress, a prostitute …1566 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
– MADAM † a kept mistress; a courtesan, a prostitute …1719
– MAKE † of humans: a husband or wife; a lover or mistress …a1240 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– MAKE-BELIEVE a mistress treated as a wife …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– MOLISHER, MOLLISHER a low-class woman; a thief’s mistress; a criminal’s sweetheart; a female cohabiting with a man gets his living by thieving …Bk1859 sl.
– MOOSE in the Korean war: a girlfriend, mistress, or prostitute …1951 US sl.
– MOUNT a wife or mistress …c1856 Brit. sl.
– MOUSE a mistress, a girlfriend …1879 US sl.
– MUM one’s mistress of many years, or one’s wife, but not one’s actual mother …1930s UK criminals’ sl.
– NATURAL † a mistress …1688
– NIGHT-PIECE †* a mistress …1620
– OLD FLAME an old lover; a cast-off mistress …1846 sl.
– OLD LADY a mistress or steady girlfriend, regardless of age …1918 US sl.
– OUTSIDE WOMAN a man’s lover; a mistress …L19 W. Indies
– PANEL a priest’s mistress; a sexually loose woman; a prostitute …14C Brit. sl.
– PARAMOUR an illicit or clandestine lover or mistress taking the place, but without the rights, of a husband or wife; the illicit partner of a married man or woman …c1386
– PARNEL † a priest’s concubine or mistress; a harlot; a wanton young woman; an immodest girl; an immoral woman; one lost to all sense of decency; a sexually loose woman; a prostitute …1362 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– PECULIAR a mistress …L17 colloq.
– PERNEL(E) a priest’s mistress; a sexually loose woman; a prostitute …14C Brit. sl.
– PODGY a girlfriend, mistress, or prostitute …1968 US Korean war usage
– PUG † a courtesan; a prostitute; a harlot; a mistress …E17
– QUEAN † a mistress, a paramour, a concubine …1931 Sc.
– QUEEN a mistress, or prostitute …1968 US sl.
– RAINBOW a mistress …E19 sl.
– SATURDAY TO MONDAY a weekend woman; a mistress whom one sees only at weekends …1903 sl. 
– SIDE DISH a mistress …1949 US sl.
– SKIBBY an Oriental concubine or mistress; an Oriental prostitute; thus, when addressing a Japanese speaker, any prostitute …1910s US sl.
– SMIG a mistress …E20 sl.
– SOILED-DOVE a kept mistress or prostitute …1865 sl.
– SPARE a married man’s mistress; a wife’s lover …c1935 sl.
– SUCCUBA a mistress; a harlot …1610
– SULTANA a mistress, a concubine …1702
– SULTANA QUEEN the favourite concubine of a sultan; hence, a favourite mistress …1668
– TACKLE † a mistress …1688 sl.
– TALLY- WIFE a married man’s mistress or concubine …Bk1887 Eng. dial.
– TALLY-WOMAN a married man’s mistress; a concubine …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– TIB † a mistress; a young woman of loose character; a strumpet, a prostitute …1582
– UNDERPUT a mistress …E17 sl.
– WHITE MAN’S HANSOM WOMAN a Black mistress …Bk1892 W. Indian sl.
– WIFE a mistress or concubine …19C sl.
– WIFE IN WATER COLOURS a mistress or concubine …1785 sl. 
mistress – person, other
– DARK CULL a married man with a mistress that he visits only at night …18C sl.
– DARK CULLY a married man with a mistress whom he sees only at night …L18 UK criminals’ sl.
– DARK DIDDLER a married man with a secret mistress …1930 Amer. dial.
– KEEPER † one who keeps a mistress …1676
– MAINTAINER † one who keeps a mistress …1632
– UNCLE a man who has a mistress …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
 
MISTRUST – nouns
– DEAD CAT ON THE LINE something causing suspicion, mistrust, or concern; something immoral …1965 Amer. dial.
– JEALOUSY † suspicion; apprehension of evil; mistrust …c1385 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– MISDOUBT a doubt; mistrust; suspicion …1823 Sc. & Eng. dial.  
– WANTROWING †* mistrust, faint belief …c1440
– WANTRUST † mistrust, lack of confidence …c1374
mistrust – verbs 
– DIFFIDE † to distrust, to doubt, to suspect, to mistrust …1678
– MISLIST to mistrust, to suspect …1950 Amer. dial.
– POISON UP ON to come to dislike or mistrust …1933 Amer. dial.
– TAKE PEPPER IN THE NOSE to take offense; to become angry or irritated; to be vexed; to mistrust …1787
 
MISTRUSTFUL – adjectives
– JEALOUS † doubtful, mistrustful …1601
 
MISTY – see MIST
 
MISUNDERSTAND – verbs
– GET THE WRONG END OF THE TETHER to make a mistake; to misunderstand …1884 Eng. dial.
– LOOK BEYOND to misconstrue, to misunderstand …1600
– MISBELIEVE to misunderstand …Bk1903 Eng. dial. 
– MISCOGNIZE †* to fail to appreciate or acknowledge; to misunderstand …1603
– MISKEN to misunderstand, to misconceive …1660 Sc. & Eng. dial. 
– MISKNOW to be ignorant of, not to know; to misunderstand, to fail to recognize …1660 Sc.  
– PICK UP STOMPIES to come late to a conversation and so misunderstand what is being discussed …S. Afr. sl.
 
MISUNDERSTANDING – nouns
– CAFFLE an argument; a misunderstanding, a disagreement …1889 Eng. dial.
– CROSSED LINES misunderstanding …1932 sl. 
– CROSSED WIRES misunderstanding …1932 sl. 
– EMBROGLIO a state of great confusion and entanglement; a complicated or difficult situation (esp. political or dramatic); a confused misunderstanding or disagreement …1818
– FALL-OUT a quarrel, a misunderstanding …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– IGNORATION † the fact of being ignorant; mistaking or misunderstanding through want of knowledge …1612
– ILL evil, misfortune, injury; harm; misunderstanding …1810 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– IMBROGLIO a state of great confusion and entanglement; a complicated or difficult situation (esp. political or dramatic); a confused misunderstanding or disagreement …1818
– MIFF a slight quarrel or misunderstanding; a tiff; a fit of ill-humour, pettishness; a huff …1790 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– MISKEN a mistake, misunderstanding …Bk1903 Eng. dial.  
– UPSET a misunderstanding; a quarrel …1879 Eng. dial.
misunderstanding – verbs
– CHIP OUT to have a misunderstanding …1936 Amer. dial.
 
MISUNDERSTOOD – adjectives
– BASKETED abandoned, ignored, misunderstood, confused …1867 sl. 
 
MISUSE – nouns
– ABUSAGE † abuse, misuse, perversion; defilement …1548
– ABUSION † misuse, misapplication, perversion …c1450
misuse – verbs
– DISABUSE to abuse, to misuse …Bk1900 Sc.
– RAPE to misuse; to steal …1990s sl.
– RIMRACK to injure, damage, or destroy, esp. by misuse …1841 Amer. dial.
 
MISUSED – adjectives
– GUNNY-SACKED damaged, misused …1942 Amer. dial.