mis-sing

See also: missing

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ sing

Pronunciation

• enPR: mĭs-sĭngʹ, IPA^(key): /mɪsˈsɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɪŋ

Verb

mis-sing (third-person singular simple present mis-sings, present participle mis-singing, simple past mis-sang, past participle mis-sung)

1. To sing incorrectly.
   • 1916, Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy, Rajput Painting - Volume 1, page 65:

     The ragas are personified, like the devatā of a mantram; so that to mis-sing a rāga or rāginī is to break the limbs of a god or goddess.

   • 1998, Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, page 48:

     I watch and listen to children learning this little song, and through repeated observation of the videotapes and examination of the way the children sing or mis-sing the song, I plumb new depths of understanding music and learning.

   • 2010, R.F. Dearden, Paul H. Hirst, R.S. Peters, Education and the Development of Reason:

     Still he apprehends that the song has been mis-sung or that he has been scolded for doing something which he did not do, and this apprehending must be classified as belonging to thinking.

   • 2014, Christie Ridgway, Always Mine:

     And remember this other immortal line of the same song you misheard—not to mention mis-sang? 'Olive, the other reindeer.'

   • 2014, C.P.T. Jennings, A Conspiracy of Goodness:

     She found him a piano teacher so he could learn some of the songs in the music books – his missinging of the tunes was driving her crazy.