misslice

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English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ slice.

Verb

misslice (third-person singular simple present misslices, present participle misslicing, simple past and past participle missliced)

  1. To slice incorrectly.
    • 1987, “Dead Right Way to Rate Hospitals”, in Forbes, volume 139, page 17:
      So from now on, if you're missliced or misspliced or end up counted among the dead, you'll be part of a count that will hold perpetrators to account.
    • 2000, David Feldman, Life's Imponderables, page 33:
      Surely, not all hamburger buns are missliced, so why don't they slice them higher?
    • 2010, Sally Cunneen, In Search of Mary: The Woman and the Symbol, page 12:
      "Virgin Mother! What kind of an example is that?" exclaims one, while another mocks Mary's unreality: “Never did she misslice a tomato or drop a bean on the floor instead of in the soup.”