What does mishear mean?
Mishear means (ambitransitive) To hear wrongly..
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/mɪsˈhɪə(ɹ)/ · verb
(ambitransitive) To hear wrongly..
I misheard when she asked for mints, and gave her mince instead.
And if any mishear or misutter it, even that also serves, since it warns.
When a slickly handsome drug dealer named Legrand (Michael Beach, in the film's most seductive performance), first meets the teen-ager on the playground, he mishears the name Manigault. "Did he say Nanny Goat?" Legrand asks, explaining the nickname in one quick, witty stroke.
Our report of a relative who, as a child, thought the classic version of the Lord's Prayer began "Our father, a chart in heaven, Harold be thy name" stated that this type of mistake is known as an eggcorn. A number of readers have suggested that instances like this in which a whole phrase rather than just a word is misheard, should be called mondegreens rather than eggcorns.
Use mishear when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Mishear means (ambitransitive) To hear wrongly..
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I misheard when she asked for mints, and gave her mince instead.
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