# misgreet

> English word · Verb

## Definitions
1. To greet wrongly; (by extension) to affront or insult

## Etymology
From Middle English *misgreten, from Old English misgrētan (“to affront; insult”), equivalent to mis- + greet.

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