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misfirer

noun

Etymology

From misfire + -er.

  1. inherited from *péh₂wr̥✻
  2. inherited from *fōr✻ — “fire”
  3. inherited from *fuir✻
  4. inherited from fȳr — “fire”
  5. inherited from fyr
  6. prefixed as misfire — “mis + fire”
  7. suffixed as misfirer — “misfire + er”

Definitions

  1. One who misfires.

    • In terms of her sense of slippage, Valerie Solanas runs with the best of them. None of these terms stick, which is why she remains a chronic misfirer.
    • Goethe is the great foundation figure; Byron and Shelley are the high-minded but incompetent misfirers; Carlyle, through an infection of international provincialism that crippled his genius, is the great but failed physician […]

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA