See misgesture on Wiktionary
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "mis",
"3": "gesture"
},
"expansion": "mis- + gesture",
"name": "prefix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From mis- + gesture.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "misgestures",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "misgesturing",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "misgestured",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "misgestured",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "misgesture (third-person singular simple present misgestures, present participle misgesturing, simple past and past participle misgestured)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1621, Joseph Hall, Meditations and Vowes Divine and Morall, page 824:",
"text": "This flesh of ours is not a good feruant, vnlesse it helpe vs in the best offices: The God of Spirits doth most respect the soule of our deuotion; yet, it is both vnmannerly and irreligious, to be misgestured in our Prayers.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2008, John Clement, Creative Model Construction in Scientists and Students, page 195:",
"text": "He emphasizes as evidence the fact that people sometimes misspeak with a correct gesture, but very rarely misgesture with correct speech.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2014, Jill H. Rathus, Alec L. Miller, DBT® Skills Manual for Adolescents, page 117:",
"text": "Anyone who misspeaks or misgestures, while trying to maintain a reasonably fast pace, is out of this portion of the exercise.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2015, Ian Bogost, The Geek's Chihuahua: Living with Apple:",
"text": "Touch here? Stroke there? Stop here? Do it again? The impressive fragility of the device only reinforces this sense — to do it wrong by dropping or misgesturing might lead to unknown consequences.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To make the wrong gesture."
],
"id": "en-misgesture-en-verb-91B3b1CF",
"links": [
[
"gesture",
"gesture"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/mɪsˈd͡ʒɛst͡ʃə(ɹ)/"
},
{
"ipa": "/mɪsˈd͡ʒɛstjʊə(r)/"
}
],
"word": "misgesture"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "mis",
"3": "gesture"
},
"expansion": "mis- + gesture",
"name": "prefix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From mis- + gesture.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "misgestures",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "misgesture (plural misgestures)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "62 38",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "67 33",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms prefixed with mis-",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "71 29",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "84 16",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1977, Mohammed Mughisuddin, Conflict and Cooperation in the Persian Gulf, page 52:",
"text": "From Faisal's perspective, a more dramatic “misgesture” on the part of the Americans was needed before the oil weapon would be employed.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2013, Steve Erickson, Tours of the Black Clock:",
"text": "He understood that if she was as bad as the instructors and professors on the committee claimed, then there were a hundred misturns, missteps and misgestures she would have made that she did not.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A gesture that is made in error."
],
"id": "en-misgesture-en-noun-13FNtFMI"
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/mɪsˈd͡ʒɛst͡ʃə(ɹ)/"
},
{
"ipa": "/mɪsˈd͡ʒɛstjʊə(r)/"
}
],
"word": "misgesture"
}
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms prefixed with mis-",
"English verbs",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "mis",
"3": "gesture"
},
"expansion": "mis- + gesture",
"name": "prefix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From mis- + gesture.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "misgestures",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "misgesturing",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "misgestured",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "misgestured",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "misgesture (third-person singular simple present misgestures, present participle misgesturing, simple past and past participle misgestured)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1621, Joseph Hall, Meditations and Vowes Divine and Morall, page 824:",
"text": "This flesh of ours is not a good feruant, vnlesse it helpe vs in the best offices: The God of Spirits doth most respect the soule of our deuotion; yet, it is both vnmannerly and irreligious, to be misgestured in our Prayers.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2008, John Clement, Creative Model Construction in Scientists and Students, page 195:",
"text": "He emphasizes as evidence the fact that people sometimes misspeak with a correct gesture, but very rarely misgesture with correct speech.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2014, Jill H. Rathus, Alec L. Miller, DBT® Skills Manual for Adolescents, page 117:",
"text": "Anyone who misspeaks or misgestures, while trying to maintain a reasonably fast pace, is out of this portion of the exercise.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2015, Ian Bogost, The Geek's Chihuahua: Living with Apple:",
"text": "Touch here? Stroke there? Stop here? Do it again? The impressive fragility of the device only reinforces this sense — to do it wrong by dropping or misgesturing might lead to unknown consequences.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To make the wrong gesture."
],
"links": [
[
"gesture",
"gesture"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/mɪsˈd͡ʒɛst͡ʃə(ɹ)/"
},
{
"ipa": "/mɪsˈd͡ʒɛstjʊə(r)/"
}
],
"word": "misgesture"
}
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms prefixed with mis-",
"English verbs",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "mis",
"3": "gesture"
},
"expansion": "mis- + gesture",
"name": "prefix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From mis- + gesture.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "misgestures",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "misgesture (plural misgestures)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1977, Mohammed Mughisuddin, Conflict and Cooperation in the Persian Gulf, page 52:",
"text": "From Faisal's perspective, a more dramatic “misgesture” on the part of the Americans was needed before the oil weapon would be employed.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2013, Steve Erickson, Tours of the Black Clock:",
"text": "He understood that if she was as bad as the instructors and professors on the committee claimed, then there were a hundred misturns, missteps and misgestures she would have made that she did not.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A gesture that is made in error."
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/mɪsˈd͡ʒɛst͡ʃə(ɹ)/"
},
{
"ipa": "/mɪsˈd͡ʒɛstjʊə(r)/"
}
],
"word": "misgesture"
}
Download raw JSONL data for misgesture meaning in All languages combined (3.6kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-08 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (9a96ef4 and 4ed51a5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.