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Webster 1913 Edition
Mishap
Mis-hap′
,Noun.
Evil accident; ill luck; misfortune; mischance.
Chaucer.
Secure from worldly chances and
mishaps
. Shakespeare
Mis-hap′
,Verb.
I.
To happen unluckily; – used impersonally.
[Obs.]
“If that me mishap.” Chaucer.
Webster 1828 Edition
Mishap
MISHAP'
,Noun.
Secure from worldly chances and mishaps.
Definition 2024
mishap
mishap
English
Noun
mishap (plural mishaps)
- An accident, mistake, or problem.
- Since the mishap with the banana peel, he watches his step.
- 1912, Zane Grey, Riders of the Purple Sage, Chapter 8
- He had come straight up without mishap or swerving off his course, and his shut teeth unlocked.
- Evil accident; ill luck; misfortune; mischance.
- Shakespeare
- Secure from worldly chances and mishaps.
- Shakespeare
Translations
accident, mistake, or problem
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Verb
mishap (third-person singular simple present mishaps, present participle mishapping, simple past and past participle mishapped)
- (archaic) To happen through misfortune; to mishappen.