missell
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See also: mis-sell
English
Etymology 1
Verb
missell (third-person singular simple present missells, present participle misselling, simple past and past participle missold)
- (transitive) To sell something wrongly or fraudulently.
- The company is accused of misselling insurance policies.
- 2024 February 7, Christian Wolmar, “LNER's crazy idea will price more people off the railway”, in RAIL, number 1002, page 45:
- HS2 has never had that. It was missold, misnamed and misconceived. It was promoted as a piece of engineering, rather than as a vital part of the railway.
Etymology 2
From Middle English mesel (“leprous, leper”), from Norman mesel (“leprous, leper”), from Old French mesel (“leprous, leper”), from Late Latin misellus (“leper”), from miser (“wretched, wretch”) + -ellus (“-elle”). Doublet of measles.
Adjective
missell
Noun
missell (plural missells)
References
- “† mesel, adj. and n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
