misluck

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From mis- + luck.

Noun

misluck (uncountable)

  1. Ill luck; misfortune.
    • 1997, Michael von Albrecht, Gareth L. Schmeling, A History of Roman Literature:
      [...] misluck would have it, however, that this emperor reigned no longer than half a year.
    • 2007, Raymond Hickey, Irish English:
      If Good- for-little had been buried, it had been my Tommy, Who by misluck was placed to drive in.
    • 2007, Robert C. Roberts, W. Jay Wood, Intellectual Virtues:
      Your belief is true and justified, but not knowledge. In this case you're unlucky enough to be driving through a neighborhood beset by deceptive appearances, but this misluck is corrected by your just.

Derived terms

  • mislucky

Verb

misluck (third-person singular simple present mislucks, present participle mislucking, simple past and past participle mislucked)

  1. (intransitive) To meet with ill luck; miscarry.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for misluck in
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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