misˈmake, v. Now Sc.
[mis-1 1.]
a. trans. To make badly. † b. To unmake, depose. Obs. c. refl. To disturb oneself, put oneself out.
| c 1400 Chron. Eng. lxxxv. in Archiv Stud. neu. Spr. LII. 24 Be stille, good wyff, quoth they, there of mysmake you noght. 1500–20 Dunbar Poems xxviii. 10 That God mismakkis ȝe do amend. 1575 Burgh Rec. Edin. 9 July (1882) 41 That we haid spokine off his Graice that we haid maid his Graice and we waild mismak him. 1613 W. Cowper Holy Alphabet 186 Wee haue mismade our selues,..and are not now like vnto that which God created vs. 1825 Jamieson, To Mismack, Mismake. 1. To shape or form improperly; applied to clothes. 2. To trouble, to disturb; as ‘Dinna mismake yoursell for me’. 1887 Jamieson's Dict. Suppl. s.v., He could threep a lee in your face, an' no mismak him. |