misgreet

verb

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

   If any of the gild misgreet another, let him pay a syster of honey, unless with two friends he can clear himself.

Where it comes from

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

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry misgreet (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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