misshape
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (noun) IPA(key): /ˈmɪsʃeɪp/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (verb) IPA(key): /mɪsˈʃeɪp/
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Noun
[edit]misshape (plural misshapes)
- (obsolete) A misshapen person; a misshapen body. [14th–17th c.]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- The one of them, that elder did appeare,
With her dull eyes did seeme to looke askew,
That her mis-shape much helpt [...].
- A misshapen object; now especially, a broken item (especially food) sold individually at a cheaper price. [from 19th c.]
- 1995, Jarvis Cocker et al., Mis-Shapes:
- Mis-shapes, mistakes, misfits
Raised on a diet of broken biscuits.
Verb
[edit]misshape (third-person singular simple present misshapes, present participle misshaping, simple past misshaped, past participle misshaped or (obsolete or poetic) misshapen)
- To shape badly or incorrectly. [from 15th c.]
- 1989, John Irving, chapter 9, in A Prayer for Owen Meany[1], New York: Ballantine Books, published 1990, page 601:
- 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.