misstuff

present singular third person misstuffs · participle present misstuffing · participle past misstuffed · past misstuffed

1. To stuff incorrectly.

   He'd thought he'd found himself at taxidermy school, but after nearly completing his course of study, he apparently had been chastised for misstuffing a wildcat.

   2013, Gillian Roberts, All's Well That Ends

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   Somebody fallible who was doing a mailing for the Program for Harvard College, Primus has learned, misstuffed the envelopes of 100 alumni of the Business School whose names begin with S with a trade magazine for embalmers.

   1959, Harvard Alumni Bulletin - Volume 62, page 481

   I misstuffed one board by soldering in a MOSFET where a voltage regulator should be, which gave off an acrid puff of smoke when I tried to program it, and so far, an unusable board.

   2011, Dean Rose, “Output Devices”, in Fab Academy