mistoss

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ toss

Verb

mistoss (third-person singular simple present mistosses, present participle mistossing, simple past and past participle mistossed)

1. To toss incorrectly.
   • 1980, Stanley Green, Rodgers and Hammerstein Fact Book, page 126:

     A young riveter follows a mistossed bolt into a rich girl's boudoir to prevent a fire.

   • 1989, Miles Wilson, Line of Fall, page 70:

     I worked with absolute focus, as though mistossing one piece of brush might make the difference.

   • 2010, Peter Matthiessen, Shadow Country:

     The warm and limber hand that had offered nuts or berries, caught my mistossed balls, set young “Mast' Edguh” on his feet after a fall?

   • 2012, Francesca Clementis, Big Girls Don't Cry:

     When she was in stretching distance of the mattress, she keeled over rigidly like a caber that had been mistossed.

   • 2019, Toby Karten, Mindfulness in the Inclusive Classroom, page 3:

     Demonstrate repeated miscommunication by asking students to gather in a circle as they mis-toss a soft foam ball to one another.

Noun

mistoss (plural mistosses)

1. An instance of mistossing.
   • 2006, Mark Binelli, Sacco and Vanzetti Must Die!:

     Accused one another of intentional mistosses during live performances.