misgo
English
Etymology
From Middle English misgon, equivalent to mis- + go.
Pronunciation
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Verb
misgo (third-person singular simple present misgoes, present participle misgoing, simple past miswent, past participle misgone)
- (intransitive, now rare or dialect) To go wrong, make a mistake, go astray, become lost, miscarry.
- c. 1400 Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, The Parson's Tale:
- ther is a ful noble way, and ful covenable, which may not faile to man ne to womman, that thorugh synne hath mysgon fro the right way of Jerusalem celestial [...].
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. 6, Monk Samson:
- Brother Samson, in the time of the Antipopes, had been sent to Rome on business; and, returning successful, was too late,—the business had all misgone in the interim!
- 1853, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Newcomes, ch. 45:
- Let those pity her who can feel their own weakness and misgoing.
- c. 1400 Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, The Parson's Tale:
Noun
misgo (plural misgoes)
- An error or mistake
- 1870, Punchinello, volumes 1-2, page 203:
- […] my hand came in contact with a lot of curly hair, and by the shriek which greeted my ear, I was conshus[sic] that I had made a misgo, and was clutchin a womans water-fall.
- 1886, Adeline Dutton Train Whitney, The Gayworthys, page 205:
- “Esquire! Lucky it didn't make a misgo of it, superscribed like that — Here — it's yourn!”
- A miscarriage or abortion
- 1881, Rodney Glisan, Text Book of Modern Midwifery, page 79:
- And when the hemorrhage is checked they will often insist that they have had a "misgo" or abortion.
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