misspin

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ spin

Verb

misspin (third-person singular simple present misspins, present participle misspinning, simple past and past participle misspun)

1. To spin badly (any sense)
   • 1861, John Ritchie, The Sabbeth Bell. A Poem for the People, page 14:

     Were some ordained their lives in pits to spend, From infant years until their latter end, Nor see creation, hill nor dell nor grove, Their threads of life misspun, the web miswove, Without due knowledge, in their dark abode, Of fellow-man, far less the living God?

   • 1969, Textile Industries - Volume 133, page 128:

     Positive acting , air-driven Rail Shifting System assures instant stops. No overshifting, misclipping or misspinning.

   • 2006, Angela Belli, John L. Coulehan, Primary Care: More Poems by Physicians, page 34:

     Correct my genes; rearrange base pairs of my base and acid into normal life for your dear absence's sake: someone, no one, make the wheel of my misfortune (which chance misspun in sperm or egg) spin again:

   • 2015, Lyndon Hardy, Master of the Five Magics:

     He had pressed too far and misspun the enchantment.

   • 2021, Tony Veale, Your Wit Is My Command: Building AIs with a Sense of Humor, page 85:

     After all, if Tale-Spin could see itself from the metalevel, it would never misspin a tale.

Noun

misspin (plural misspins)

1. An instance of misspinning.
   • 2004, Car and Driver - Volume 50, page 24:

     Ergonomics is a designer's lost art, and the modern high-end dashboard is a "why drive" random maze of soon-to-be-executive mispushes, misspins, and misslides.