mistrace
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]mistrace (third-person singular simple present mistraces, present participle mistracing, simple past and past participle mistraced)
- (transitive) To trace incorrectly.
- 1984, California, volume 9, page 108:
- As it turned out, Pacific Telephone had mistraced the call and sent the FBI on a wild-goose chase […]
Anagrams
[edit]Yola
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English maistresse, from Old French maistresse, mestresse.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]mistrace
References
[edit]- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 57