amissing
English
Etymology
From a misinterpretation of a-missing (a- + missing) as a single word.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /əˈmɪsɪŋ/
Adjective
amissing (comparative more amissing, superlative most amissing)
- Missing, lacking.
- 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘Dray Wara Yow Dee’, Black and White, Folio Society 2004, vol. 1, p. 369:
- Kamal is dead now, but his nephew has taken up the matter, and there will be more horses amissing if the Khaiber Levies do not look to it.
- 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘Dray Wara Yow Dee’, Black and White, Folio Society 2004, vol. 1, p. 369: