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misfix

verb

Etymology

From mis- + fix.

  1. derived from *dʰeygʷ-✻
  2. derived from fīxus
  3. derived from *fixer✻
  4. inherited from fixen
  5. prefixed as misfix — “mis + fix”

Definitions

  1. To fix improperly.

    • Still, if he does not know how he has misfixed himself, he knows that he is misfixed for we hear his murmurings of complaint, and we know the nature of them.
    • Bush may have intended to repeat the Republican derogation of “deadbeat dads,” but misfixed it to “ deadbeat fathers."
    • Any error in reading the drawings or misfixing the reinforcement may have disasterous^([sic]) results.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for misfix. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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