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- verb Present participle of
misnomer .
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I had suspected that this was an instance of contradictory naming: Giving an appealing name to something that's otherwise repellent, along the lines of the Iceland-Greenland historical misnomering.
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This misnomering Vendor of Books must have been misbegotten in some portentous union of the Malaprops and the Slipslops. "] *****
The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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