mispeg

English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ peg.

Verb

mispeg (third-person singular simple present mispegs, present participle mispegging, simple past and past participle mispegged)

1. To incorrectly ascribe a value or attribute to.
   • 1952, John Crowe Ransom, The Kenyon Review - Volume 14, page 143:

     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.

   • 1990, Hank Nuwer, Broken Pledges: The Deadly Rite of Hazing, page 40:

     Those bureaucrats tended to mispeg Belanger as a flaming radical with a penchant for spitting into a headwind .

   • 2000, Z Magazine - Volume 13, page 61:

     In addition, the activism by youth of various colors is mispegged under a single ethnic label, Latino.