late 14c., from Old French mesconter "give a false statement; miscalculate, be wrong in reckoning;" see mis- (2) + count (v). Related: Miscounted; miscounting.
miscount (n.)
1580s, from mis- (1) + count (n.).
实用例句
1. The shopkeeper miscount, so we get twenty five bar of chocolate instead of two dozen.
