misspit

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ spit

Verb

misspit (third-person singular simple present misspits, present participle misspitting, simple past and past participle misspat or misspit)

1. To spit badly, such as missing the location where one is aiming.
   • 1895, Jeannette Leonard Gilder, Joseph Benson Gilder, The Critic - Volume 27, page 452:

     Richer than all the Orient In gold and glory, in want and woe, In self-denial and days misspent, In truth and treason in good and guilt, In ivied ruins and altars low, In battered walls and blood misspit— Glorious, gory Mexico.

   • 1975, Mademoiselle: The Magazine for the Smart Young Woman, page 60:

     That my living room would no longer be littered with misspit watermelon seeds.

   • 1990, Donald Porter, Jubilee Jim and the Wizard of Wall Street, page 120:

     The stench of stale beer, acrid cigar smoke, spilt whiskey, and misspat plugs of chewing tobacco pawed her, leaving the sticky grime of a thousand miners' hands.