misswallow

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ swallow

Verb

misswallow (third-person singular simple present misswallows, present participle misswallowing, simple past and past participle misswallowed)

1. To swallow incorrectly.
   • 1910, Alfred Bruck, F. W. Forbes Ross, The Diseases of the Nose, Mouth, Pharynx and Larynx, page 305:

     If the sensory branches of the laryngeal nerve (superior laryngeal nerve) are paralysed, the danger is great, for the patients, owing to the abolished reflex action, are prone to misswallow (dysphagia) , and become subject to "foreign body pneumonia."

   • 1981, Muscular Dystrophy Abstracts - Volume 25, page 46:

     Thus, hemiplegic patients are hemiplegic in deglutitory movements also and are ready to misswallow.

   • 2004, Jane Alison, The Marriage of the Sea:

     He looked up the embankment directly at Vera and then through Vera at Lach, who misswallowed his drink and was coughing by the time Vera reached him.

   • 2012, Sophie Perinot, The Sister Queens:

     I misswallow some of my own wine and am left coughing.

   • 2013, John Whitbourn, The Royal Changeling:

     Old Path's drinking noises turned to bubbling as he misswallowed.