mishammer

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ hammer

Verb

mishammer (third-person singular simple present mishammers, present participle mishammering, simple past and past participle mishammered)

1. To hammer improperly.
   • 1947, Here and Now, page 63:

     When my most jesus fear is crucified By ready nails at every stranger's eye, By christian words mishammered at my ear, They are my fears, not I, that die.

   • 1993, Discover: The Greater Ann Arbor Area, page 75:

     Now in its 46th year, the Society welcomes everyone who can sing, act, dance, paint, sew, draw, hammer nails or remove nails that have been mishammered.

   • 1996, Earl Proulx, Yankee Magazine's Make It Last, page 114:

     If they cut a board wrong or mishammered a nail, the board went into the scrap heap.

   • 2008, Kathleen Stewart, The After Life: A Memoir, page 20:

     I should know to be still when, down below the house in his workshop, he is mishammering a nail.