mis-swing

present singular third person mis-swings · participle present mis-swinging · participle past mis-swung · past mis-swung · alternative misswing

1. To swing incorrectly.

   I seen one man from the 16th nigh chop his foot off when he mis-swung his axe.

   2015, Johnny D. Boggs, South by Southwest: A Western Story

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   And Hank taught the youngster to deliberately mis-swing at a certain pitch early in the game; later, in a decisive situation, the pitcher might give him the same pitch again, and he could slam it.

   2011, Mark Kurlansky, Hank Greenberg: The Hero who Didn't Want to be One, page 117

   It was winter, with some snow on the ground, but we were making good progress until I mis-swung my axe, bounced it off the tree, and buried it in my leg.

   2012, Rick Nelson, As I Remember It

plural mis-swings · alternative misswing

1. A botched swing

   And to her advantage, his mis-swing upset his equilibrium, and so gains her a few seconds.

   2023, Angela Slatter, The Wrong Girl & Other Warnings

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   Eckhart also speaks of this happening to a man who has misstepped (vertreten, as I recall); God, then, corrects the mis-swing of the man and brings him back to the Tao or Logos.

   2012, Philip K Dick, Jonathan Lethem, Pamela Jackson, The Exegesis of Philip K Dick

   So the stance was crucial, because a mis-swing or glancing blow off the wood could veer towards a leading leg.

   2019, Joanna Foat, Lumberjills: Britain's Forgotten Army