misfix

English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ fix.

Verb

misfix (third-person singular simple present misfixes, present participle misfixing, simple past and past participle misfixed)

1. To fix improperly.
   • 1886, William Vickroy Marshall, Unfair Distribution of Earnings: The Evil Effects and the Remedy, page 228:

     Still, if he does not know how he has misfixed himself, he knows that he is misfixed for we hear his murmurings of complaint, and we know the nature of them.

   • 1997, William Safire, Watching My Language: Adventures in the Word, page 33:

     Bush may have intended to repeat the Republican derogation of “deadbeat dads,” but misfixed it to “ deadbeat fathers."

   • 2003, J.G. Richardson, Supervision of Concrete Construction 2, page 21:

     Any error in reading the drawings or misfixing the reinforcement may have disasterous^[sic] results.

Anagrams

• fixism