misgroom

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verb

To groom badly or wrongly.

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Meanings

verbmisgroom (third-person singular simple present misgrooms, present participle misgrooming, simple past and past participle misgroomed)

present singular third person misgrooms · participle present misgrooming · participle past misgroomed · past misgroomed

  1. transitiveTo groom badly or wrongly.

    He was a great human tic, a wonderment of misgrooming.

    2009, Daniel A. Hoyt, Then We Saw the Flames: Stories, →ISBN, page 87
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    Straggly-haired Mr Rhind-Tutt has been miscast, misdirected and misgroomed.

    2009 December 11, Quentin Letts, “Shocks and Men”, in Daily Mail

    He envisioned himself, before a crowded lecture hall, delivering a squelching witticism upon the head of a misgroomed, bepimpled sophomore, though he could not think of the remark offhand.

    2017, William Kamowski, Buckeye's Ballet, →ISBN

Origin

From mis- + groom.

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APA

misgroom. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/misgroom

MLA

“misgroom.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/misgroom. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “misgroom,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/misgroom.

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