rare. [a. Gr. κακοέπεια faulty language.] Bad or erroneous pronunciation; opposed to orthoepy. Hence Cacoëpistic a.
1880. Grant White, Every-Day Eng., 39–40. Phonology finds in orthoëpy only the materials upon which it works, which indeed it finds no less in cacoëpy.
1867. A. J. Ellis, E. E. Pronunc., I. iii. 224. Abnormal, cacoepistic, rare, vulgar and dialectic forms.
