misdiet

English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ diet.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /mɪsˈdaɪət/

Noun

misdiet (countable and uncountable, plural misdiets)

1. Bad diet.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Full of diseases was his carcas blew, / And a dry dropsie through his flesh did flow: / Which by misdiet daily greater grew […]

Verb

misdiet (third-person singular simple present misdiets, present participle misdieting, simple past and past participle misdieted)

1. (intransitive) To diet improperly.

Anagrams

• misedit, mistide, mistied, stimied