miswear

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ wear

Verb

miswear (third-person singular simple present miswears, present participle miswearing, simple past miswore, past participle misworn)

1. (obsolete or rare) To wear badly or wrongly.
   • c. 1613–1621, Francis Bacon, The judicial charge upon the commission of Oyer and Terminer held for the verge of the Court

     the people buy in effect chaffe for corn , for that which is miswrought will miswear

References

• “miswear”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• SIMware, Weimars, Wiersma, awmries, semiraw