Mislike

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /mɪˈslʌɪk/

Origin

From Middle English misliken, from Old English mislīcian ("to displease, disquiet"), corresponding to - + like. Cognate with Old High German misselīchēn ("to displease"), Swedish misslika, Icelandic mislíka ("to dislike").

Full definition of mislike

Verb

1. (archaic) To displease. from 9th c.
• 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.viii:Mote not mislike you also to abate
  Your zealous hast, till morrow next againe
  Both light of heauen, and strength of men relate ....
2. To dislike; to disapprove of; to have aversion to. from 13th c.
• I. TaylorWho may like or mislike what he says.
• 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 130:And she found she didn't mislike him any longer, she felt queer and strange to him, not feared ….
• 2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, Fourth Estate 2010, p. 492:‘Much as we may mislike her talk of the late cardinal appearing to her, and devils in her bedchamber, she speaks in this way because she has been taught to ape the claims of certain nuns who went before her ....’

Anagrams

• milkies