mishappen

English

Etymology

From Middle English mishapnen, equivalent to mis- +‎ happen.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /mɪsˈhap(ə)n/
Rhymes: -æpən

Verb

mishappen (third-person singular simple present mishappens, present participle mishappening, simple past and past participle mishappened)

(obsolete) To encounter grief or misfortune.
(now rare) To happen through misfortune.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
  His fearefull friends weare out the wofull night, / Ne dare to weepe, nor seeme to vnderstand / The heauie hap, which on them is alight, / Affraid, least to themselues the like mishappen might.
(intransitive) To happen ill; fare ill.

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