misstuff
misstuff verb: to stuff incorrectly.
Verb
misstuff (third-person singular simple present misstuffs, present participle misstuffing, simple past and past participle misstuffed)
- To stuff incorrectly.
- Somebody fallible who was doing a mailing for the Program for Harvard College, Primus has learned, misstuffed the envelopes of 100 alumni of the Business School whose names begin with S with a trade magazine for embalmers.1959, Harvard Alumni Bulletin - Volume 62, page 481
- I misstuffed one board by soldering in a MOSFET where a voltage regulator should be, which gave off an acrid puff of smoke when I tried to program it, and so far, an unusable board.2011, Dean Rose, “Output Devices”, in Fab Academy
Forms of misstuff
| third-person singular present | misstuffs |
|---|---|
| present participle | misstuffing |
| past participle | misstuffed |
| past | misstuffed |
Origin of misstuff
From mis- + stuff.
Questions about misstuff
- What does misstuff mean?
- Misstuff means to stuff incorrectly.
- What part of speech is misstuff?
- Misstuff is a verb.
- What is the past tense of misstuff?
- The past tense of misstuff is misstuffed.
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