misswing

present singular third person misswings · participle present misswinging · participle past misswung · past misswung

1. alternativeAlternative form of mis-swing.

   It was she who stopped the lifeblood flow when Karl misswung an axe until Herta could come.

   2014, Andre Norton, Tales from High Hallack

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   The ones who survived were sent out into the cane fields, where they encountered tropical heat, disease, poisonous snakes, and sometimes the misswung machetes of other workers.

   2005, Ian Lendler, Alcoholica Esoterica, page 106

   For a split second he though he might have completely misswung and missed the ball altogether, for there had been no resistance, barely any sensation of the club hitting anything at all.

   2009, John Niven, The Amateurs, page 145

plural misswings

1. alternativeAlternative form of mis-swing.

   The slightest misswing can cause you to blade the ball.

   1982, Peter Kostis, Larry Dennis, The Inside Path to Better Golf, page 176

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   Then, immaculately dressed in three-piece suit, starched collar, and wingtips, Wilbur was obliged to drive a spike of Nevada silver into a railroad tie, a tricky and potentially embarrassing ceremonoial duty, especially with a phalanx of eager photographers poised to record every misswing.

   2014, Joseph E. Stevens, Hoover Dam: An American Adventure