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• IPA: (noun) /ˈmɪsneɪm/
• IPA: (verb) /mɪsˈneɪm/

名詞

misname (plural misnames)

1. A wrong, unsuitable, misleading, or injurious name or designation; misnomer.
   • 1994, Marilyn Sanders Mobley, Folk Roots and Mythic Wings in Sarah Orne Jewett and Toni ...:

     Like the name Macon Dead, it is a misname imposed by someone with no concern about the consequences.

   • 2010, Sandra Hill, A Tale of Two Vikings:

     And it was a misname, because the woman who stood before him now in all her naked glory presented a picture beauteous beyond belief—to Vagn, leastways.

動詞

misname (third-person singular simple present misnames, present participle misnaming, simple past and past participle misnamed)

1. (transitive) To call by a wrong name.

   Synonyms: miscall, misnomer

   Hypernym: misidentify

   • 1990, Library Journal, page 9:

     Misnamed (and misgendered) was Patricia Glass Schuman, of Neal-Schuman Publishers.

2. (transitive) To give an unsuitable or injurious name to; name incorrectly.

   Near-synonym: misnomer

   • 1860 September, J. W. E., “Our Autumnal Haunts in Leicestershire”, in Macphail’s Edinburgh Ecclesiastical Journal and Literary Review, volume XXX, number CLXXVII, Edinburgh: Myles Macphail, […]; London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., published October 1860 (number), 1861, section V (The Bridge across the Soar), page 140:

     Elsewhere is pain in looking back on the blotted page misnamed Experience.

   • 1904, Carolyn Wells, “Servants”, in Patty at Home, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, →OCLC, pages 69–70:

     The Intelligence Office proved to be as much misnamed as those institutions usually are, and varying degrees of unintelligence were shown in the candidates offered for the position of cook at Boxley Hall; […]

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