mis-swing
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.52 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To swing incorrectly.
Example Sentences
- "And Hank taught the youngster to deliberately mis-swing at a certain pitch early in the game; later, in a decisive situation, the pitcher might give him the same pitch again, and he could slam it."
- "It was winter, with some snow on the ground, but we were making good progress until I mis-swung my axe, bounced it off the tree, and buried it in my leg."
- "I seen one man from the 16th nigh chop his foot off when he mis-swung his axe."
- "Eckhart also speaks of this happening to a man who has misstepped (vertreten, as I recall); God, then, corrects the mis-swing of the man and brings him back to the Tao or Logos."
- "So the stance was crucial, because a mis-swing or glancing blow off the wood could veer towards a leading leg."
- "And to her advantage, his mis-swing upset his equilibrium, and so gains her a few seconds."