misfix
English
Etymology
mis- + fix
Verb
misfix (third-person singular simple present misfixes, present participle misfixing, simple past and past participle misfixed)
- To fix improperly.
- 1886, William Vickroy Marshall, Unfair Distribution of Earnings: The Evil Effects and the Remedy, page 228:
- Still, if he does not know how he has misfixed himself, he knows that he is misfixed for we hear his murmurings of complaint, and we know the nature of them.
- 1997, William Safire, Watching My Language: Adventures in the Word, page 33:
- Bush may have intended to repeat the Republican derogation of “deadbeat dads,” but misfixed it to “ deadbeat fathers."
- 2003, J.G. Richardson, Supervision of Concrete Construction 2, page 21:
- Any error in reading the drawings or misfixing the reinforcement may have disasterous results.