Misgo

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /mɪsˈɡəʊ/

Origin

From Middle English - + go.

Full definition of misgo

Verb

1. (intransitive, now rare or dialect) To go wrong, make a mistake, go astray, become lost, miscarry.
• circa 1400 Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, The Parson's Tale:ther is a ful noble way, and ful covenable, which may not faile to man ne to womman, that thorugh synne hath mysgon fro the right way of Jerusalem celestial ....
• 1843, , , book 2, ch. 6, Monk Samson:Brother Samson, in the time of the Antipopes, had been sent to Rome on business; and, returning successful, was too late,—the business had all misgone in the interim!
• 1853, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Newcomes, ch. 45:Let those pity her who can feel their own weakness and misgoing.

Anagrams

• gismo