misˈmay, v. Sc. and north. dial.
[Alteration of dismay or esmay by substitution of the prefix mis-1 9. For the sense cf. mismake v. c.]
trans. To trouble, disturb, ‘upset’; chiefly refl.
| a 1300 Cursor M. 15265 Mismai yow noght, mi breþer dere, Quat-sum yee her or se. 1438 Bk. Alex. Grt. (Bannatyne Cl.) 21 We na wayis sould vs mismay. 1501 Douglas Pal. Hon. i. lxii, Than as I mocht with curage all mismaid,..Sair abaisit, beliue I thus out braid. 1825–80 Jamieson, To Mismae, to disturb; as ‘She never mismaed her mind’. |