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Mispay vs Missay - What's the difference?

mispay | missay |

As verbs the difference between mispay and missay

is that mispay is to pay incorrectly, or to the wrong person while missay is to speak ill of (someone).

mispay

English

Verb

  • To pay incorrectly, or to the wrong person.
  • (obsolete) To dissatisfy.
  • missay

    English

    Verb

  • (archaic) To speak ill of (someone).
  • (obsolete) To say something erroneous; to speak wrongly.
  • *1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.2:
  • *:The worde gone out she backe againe would call, / As her repenting so to have missayd [...].