misstuff

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ stuff

Verb

misstuff (third-person singular simple present misstuffs, present participle misstuffing, simple past and past participle misstuffed)

1. To stuff incorrectly.
   • 1959, Harvard Alumni Bulletin - Volume 62, page 481:

     Somebody fallible who was doing a mailing for the Program for Harvard College, Primus has learned, misstuffed the envelopes of 100 alumni of the Business School whose names begin with S with a trade magazine for embalmers.

   • 2011, Dean Rose, “Output Devices”, in Fab Academy‎^[1]:

     I misstuffed one board by soldering in a MOSFET where a voltage regulator should be, which gave off an acrid puff of smoke when I tried to program it, and so far, an unusable board.

   • 2013, Gillian Roberts, All's Well That Ends:

     He'd thought he'd found himself at taxidermy school, but after nearly completing his course of study, he apparently had been chastised for misstuffing a wildcat.