misshape

Meanings

nounmisshape (plural misshapes)

obsoleteA misshapen person; a misshapen body.First known use 14th–17th c.
The one of them, that elder did appeare, With her dull eyes did seeme to looke askew, That her mis-shape much helpt [...].
1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
A misshapen object; now especially, a broken item (especially food) sold individually at a cheaper price.First known use 19th c.
Mis-shapes, mistakes, misfits Raised on a diet of broken biscuits.
1995, Jarvis Cocker et al., Mis-Shapes

verbmisshape (third-person singular simple present misshapes, present participle misshaping, simple past misshaped, past participle misshaped or (obsolete or poetic) misshapen)

present singular third person misshapes · participle present misshaping · past misshaped · participle past misshaped · obsolete participle past poetic misshapen

transitiveTo shape badly or incorrectly.First known use 15th c.
Major Rawls drove us to our motel […] where a swimming pool with underwater lights had the disturbing effect of substantially enlarging and misshaping the swimmers.
1989, John Irving, chapter 9, in A Prayer for Owen Meany, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1990, page 601