Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

mispull

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: mis-pull
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To pull badly, using incorrect technique.

verb

To pull something that one should not pull.

noun

An act of mispulling.

Example Sentences

"Recruits had the appearance of “mispulled taffy.""
"The second ball of his second over is a shortish, straight delivery that Hussey, cramped for room, mispulls straight."
"Jess's eyelids had slid down over those icy-blue eyes, almost closed, almost crooked, like mispulled blinds."
"A mispulled switch . . One of those minor accidents common to electric lighting systems ."
"This 0.2 % covers miscellaneous breakage, some minor pilferage, mispulled product, and so on."
"Where are the losses factored in from rework correcting mispulled items because the pull list was hard to read?"

Etymology

From mis- + pull.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: mis

Inflected Forms

mispulls (present, singular) mispulling (participle, present) mispulled (participle, past) mispulled (past) mispulls (plural)

Questions

What does mispull mean?: To pull badly, using incorrect technique.
Where does mispull come from?: From mis- + pull.

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