Learn-A-Word Wednesday: misprize \mis-PRYZ\

transitive verb:
1. To hold in contempt.
2. To undervalue.

I hesitate to appear to misprize my native city, but how can the history of dear, sedate old London town possibly compare to Paris for sheer excitement?
– Alistair Horne, Seven Ages of Paris
Misprize comes from Middle French mesprisier, from mes-, “amiss, wrong” + prisier, “to appraise.”

Here’s a check-in point from me today: I am misprizing the Kid today, and I mean the “contempt” version, not the “undervaluing” version. Unless it’s undervaluing her ability to think up creative, new, BAD things to do with a door closed. Or her ability to jump out of bed and have the first thing she thinks of to do in the morning be BAD.

There, fuming in my pajamas, I almost spanked her. Instead, I yelled at her. And denied her all treats, TV and computer games today. That’s gonna work real well later today after school, huh? I’m looking forward to it.

Then she cried and crawled under her bed and didn’t want to go to school due to the terrible, green ogre-ness called mommy. Yeah, good times, people, good times.

I need to take that lazy dog out and burn off some of this anger.

Are you misprizing anyone or thing today? (btw, the spellcheck doesn’t even know this word! we’re SO smart now, eh?)

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