wrongtake

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See also: wrong-take and wrong take

English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From wrong +‎ take.

Verb

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wrongtake (third-person singular simple present wrongtakes, present participle wrongtaking, simple past wrongtook, past participle wrongtaken)

  1. (transitive, UK, Yorkshire, dialectal, obsolete) To misunderstand or mistake

References

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  • John Harland (1876) A Glossary of Words Used in Swaledale, Yorkshire