α. 1800s– miss cue, 1800s– miss-cue, 1800s– miss-queue.
β. 1800s– miscue.
miscuen.1
/ˈmɪsˌkjuː/, U.S. /ˈmɪsˌkju/ 1. Billiards, Snooker, and Pool. A failure to strike the ball properly or cleanly with the cue.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > billiards, pool, or snooker > [noun] > actions or types of play > foul or mishit
miscue1838
miss1844
foul1873
scratch1913
miscueing1915
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β. 1906 Westm. Gaz. 22 May 9/3 When Roberts wanted only two to complete his ‘points’ for the afternoon he made a mis-cue.1934 W. W. Gill Manx Dial. ii. 25 A fault or a let in tennis,..a mis-cue in billiards..would have been ‘branghis’.1989 Snooker Scene Jan. 13/1 But the Welshman, despite..a miscue on a free ball black, took the sixth with the first few colours.1998 P. Muldoon Hay 121 There was a silence more awkward than that following a miscue on the next pool table but one.1838 Bentley's Misc. Dec. 552 He never makes a miss-queue.
1850 M. Phelan Billiards without Master 62 Strike the ball as much below the centre and as much to the left as possible, without making a miscue.
1869 J. Roberts & H. Buck Roberts on Billiards ix. 134 Miss cue, when, for want of chalk, or from any other cause, the cue slips off the side of the ball, and thus defeats the striker's intention.
1873 J. Bennett & ‘Cavendish’ Billiards 9 So long as the point of the cue was flat and unyielding, if the ball was not struck precisely in the centre, the consequence was a miss cue.
1873 J. Bennett & ‘Cavendish’ Billiards 33 A miss-cue.
2. In extended use. A shot or attempt which goes awry or misses the mark; (figurative) a mistake or blunder, an error of judgement.
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the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [noun] > unskilful action or working > a bungle
miscarriage1590
bungle1656
bumble1823
boggle1834
muff1867
car wreck1877
mismove1877
miscue1882
muddle1884
bobble1887
mess-up1902
floater1913
bollock1919
fluff1928
balls-up1929
muck-up1930
balls1938
snafu1943
foul-up1944
fuck-up1949
clusterfuck1969
car crash1992
dumpster fire2008
omnishambles2009
1882 G. W. Peck Peck's Sunshine 46 Whoever it was made a miscue.
1888 Overland Monthly Aug. 136/2 The aim was uncertain and the shot only knocked off the outlaw's hat... This miscue turned the tables on Morse and nearly cost him his life.
1932 J. A. Barlow Elements Rifle Shooting v. 58 The idea..is to be able to put sufficient force behind the bolt to eliminate any chance of a miscue, in other words, a failure to close the bolt.
1981 Social Psychol. Q. 44 268/2 The..members attributed to the CO nearly every miscue the unit experienced in the exercise.
1993 Coloradoan (Fort Collins) 30 May a.1/5 The realignment comes as Clinton's young Democratic administration tries to refocus after a series of miscues and embarrassing fumbles.
1997 Sunday Times 26 Oct. (Sports section) 9/4 Serevi had already gifted three points to Bath with a miscue from the base of the scrum under his own posts.
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miscuen.2
/ˈmɪsˌkjuː/, U.S. /ˈmɪsˌkju/ 1. A slip of the tongue; (Theatre) an error made when delivering a line or answering a cue; a mistake in execution, direction, stage management, etc. Also (in extended use): an error, a gaffe (cf. miscue n.1 2).
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1920 G. Ade Hand-made Fables 26 The Letter went on to say that Oliver Cromwell might be expected Home on almost any Train. It suggested that there had been a Miscue at the Christening.
1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §593/5 Miscue,..a slip of the tongue.
1979 Washington Post (Nexis) 19 Oct. 21 Getting the players on and off stage more than 200 times without a noticeable miscue would be a considerable accomplishment.
1980 Washington Post (Nexis) 5 Jan. a10 Carefully nursing every syllable for fear of a miscue, each candidate will regard tonight as a unique opportunity to emerge from the pack.
1986 San Diego Union-Tribune (Nexis) 28 Feb. d15 Actors' miscues and a general lack of funny lines sank the whole enterprise.
2000 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 22 Nov. a10 Campaign miscues about aboriginal Canadians sparked more controversy yesterday.
2. Education and Linguistics. An unexpected response to a phonetic cue or contextual signal in reading; (also) a failure to respond to such a cue.
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1965 K. S. Goodman in Elem. Eng. 42 642/2 I categorized all errors of the subjects according to linguistic terminology. This analysis produced the Preliminary Linguistic Taxonomy of Cues and Miscues in Reading.
1969 K. S. Goodman in Reading Res. Q. 5 12 The miscues are not simply errors, but the results of the reading process having miscarried in some minor or major ways.
1975 Lang. for Life (Dept. Educ. & Sci.) xvii. 253 The technique of hearing children read is at its most effective when errors are seen as miscues which provide a ‘continuous window into the reading process’.
1991 Times Educ. Suppl. 18 Jan. 41/5 Staff use miscue analysis to calculate a child's mistakes and see where help is needed.
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miscuev.1
/ˌmɪsˈkjuː/, U.S. /ˌmɪsˈkju/ Chiefly Sport.
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a. intransitive. Billiards, Snooker, and Pool. To make a miscue.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > billiards, pool, or snooker > [verb (intransitive)] > actions or types of play
carambole1775
string1814
cannon1825
to make a baulk1839
star1839
push1851
to play for safety1857
run1857
carom1860
to knock the balls about1864
miscue1889
snooker1889
break1893
break1893
scratch1909
to call one's shot1953
1889 A. W. Drayson Art Pract. Billiards v. 19 To ‘miss cue’ as it is termed, that is, for the cue to slip off the ball, is almost entirely due to carelessness in not chalking the cue.
1894 Sheffield Daily Tel. 29 Mar. 8/5 Dawson had a promising opening of potting the red, but mis-cued.
1936 S. Newman How to play Snooker ix. 73 You will miscue far less frequently by acting on these hints.
1995 Snooker Scene May 7/1 He won the fourth on the pink when O'Sullivan miscued.
b. intransitive. In extended and figurative use. To make an error; to mistime or mishit a shot or stroke.
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the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > do something unskilfully [verb (intransitive)] > bungle
bungle1549
to put the wrong foot before1590
bebotch1609
to put one's foot in (also into) it1796
mess1823
boggle1853
to make a muff of oneself1884
duff1890
bobble1908
miscue1941
blow1943
to make a porridge (of)1969
sheg1981
1941 J. Smiley Hash House Lingo 38 Miscue, make an error.
1955 I. Peebles Ashes x. 100 Bailey tried to hook Johnston and miscued so that the ball bounced off his pads.
1970 Sunday Tel. 1 Nov. 32/7 Southgate went nearest to a goal when Neale cut in from the left but Walker miscued badly.
2001 Independent (Nexis) 26 Mar. (Sport section) 5 [He] crossed low and hard only for Wayne Allison to miscue at the far post from a yard out after the ball had bobbled.
2. transitive. To fail to strike (a ball, etc.) properly; to mistime (a stroke or shot).
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1962 [implied in: Times 3 Jan. 3/7 His miscued strokes always went up to score disconcertingly. (at miscued adj.)].
1987 Rugby World & Post Mar. 23/2 Blanco dropped a ball in his..goal area,..while Sella miscued a ball.
1992 Daily Tel. 24 July 30/2 Snell miscued a pull to square-leg and Burns was bowled off an inside edge.
1999 Sun 26 Oct. 51/6 The veteran midfielder..miscued his header and put the ball wide.
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miscuev.2
/ˌmɪsˈkjuː/, U.S. /ˌmɪsˈkju/ 1. Theatre. (a) intransitive. To miss or mistake a cue. rare. (b) transitive. To give a wrong cue to (someone); (also) to respond wrongly to (a cue). Chiefly (and in earliest use) figurative.
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1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl. Miscue, to miss one's cue or answer a wrong cue.
1924 R. Spears in Argosy All-Story Weekly 3 May 937/2 You know how a man feels when he knows he ought to ask a lady something, but expects she'll sure miscue 'im.
1985 J. Trapido et al. Internat. Dict. Theatre Lang. 544 Miscue,..to deliver an incorrect cue line... To miss a cue.
1997 N. Blincoe Ardwick Green in S. Champion Disco Biscuits 9 Through an involuntary memory spasm, Andy mis-cued the next record, grinding the different beats into a Robochef blur.
2. transitive. Education and Linguistics. To make or cause (a miscue) in reading. See miscue n.2
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1965 K. S. Goodman in Elem. Eng. 42 639/1 All reading behavior..is cued or miscued during the child's interaction with written language.
1980 Res. in Teaching of Eng. 14 127 The purpose of the present studies was..to look for patterns in the surface structure of fragments and run-ons that miscued boundaries of complete written sentences.
1992 Appl. Linguistics 13 249 Samoan pre-school children miscue or mistime their attempts at interaction because they are less successful at reading non-verbal cues.
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