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mishearing

verb

  1. gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of mishear

noun mishearings

  1. The act of hearing something incorrectly. The title lyric ["Bei Mir Bistu Shein"], the only part of the original Yiddish preserved by Cahn, was a mondegreen waiting to happen—“My Mere Bits of Shame” and “My Beer, Mr. Shane” were among the earliest recorded mishearings—but the language barrier didn't […]

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@misc{mishearing_2026,
  title = {mishearing},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/mishearing},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}