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misfirer

misfirer noun: one who misfires.

Noun

misfirer (plural misfirers)

  1. One who misfires.
    • In terms of her sense of slippage, Valerie Solanas runs with the best of them. None of these terms stick, which is why she remains a chronic misfirer.2017, Avital Ronell, Deviant Payback: The Aims of Valerie Solanas
    • Goethe is the great foundation figure; Byron and Shelley are the high-minded but incompetent misfirers; Carlyle, through an infection of international provincialism that crippled his genius, is the great but failed physician […]1983, William Earl Buckler, Matthew Arnold's Prose: Three Essays in Literary Enlargement

Forms of misfirer

pluralmisfirers

Origin of misfirer

From misfire + -er.

Questions about misfirer

What does misfirer mean?
Misfirer means one who misfires.
What part of speech is misfirer?
Misfirer is a noun.
What is the plural of misfirer?
The plural of misfirer is misfirers.

Words near misfirer in the dictionary

  1. misfingered
  2. misfingering
  3. misfingers
  4. misfire
  5. misfired
  6. misfirer
  7. misfirers
  8. misfires
  9. misfiring
  10. misfirings
  11. misfit

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