# miscolour

> English word · Verb

## Definitions
1. To give a wrong colour to.
2. To set forth erroneously or unfairly.

## Etymology
From Middle English miscolouren. Compare Saterland Frisian Misklöär (“mismatched colour”). By surface analysis, mis- + colour.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/miscolour