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