Misgrab
//ˈmɪsɡɹæb// noun, verb
noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A failed attempt to grab something.
"He hauls in the twenty yards of it in frantic haste, making many a misgrab and getting more excited, I'll warrant, than he ever was with any but his first bear."
- 2 A mistake. figuratively
"It is easy for the American visitor to make a “misgrab” here because, blinded by the surface similarities, he fails to take the hidden differences into consideration."
Verb
- 1 To fail in an attempt to grab something
"[…] misgrabbing or catching an apparatus or opponent"
Example
More examples"He hauls in the twenty yards of it in frantic haste, making many a misgrab and getting more excited, I'll warrant, than he ever was with any but his first bear."
Etymology
From mis- + grab.
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