mispeg

To incorrectly ascribe a value or attribute to.

Verb

  1. To incorrectly ascribe a value or attribute to.
    • This imitation Dahomey trifle mispegged at two hundred francs at its debut, falls to forty, hovers at fifty and ends up in the hands of a souvenir bug. - 1952, John Crowe Ransom, The Kenyon Review - Volume 14, page 143:
    • Those bureaucrats tended to mispeg Belanger as a flaming radical with a penchant for spitting into a headwind . - 1990, Hank Nuwer, Broken Pledges: The Deadly Rite of Hazing, page 40:
    • In addition, the activism by youth of various colors is mispegged under a single ethnic label, Latino. - 2000, Z Magazine - Volume 13, page 61:

Origin

From mis- + peg.

Forms

mispegs mispegging mispegged