单词 | mishandle |
释义 | mishandlev.ΚΠ a1500 St. Brendan's Confession (Cambr.) 257 in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen 175 46 (MED) Wt myn hondis I haue myshandelyd [v.r. mys-handlid]..for I haue handelyd and touchid þt I schuld not haue touche ne handel. 2. transitive. To handle or treat badly, wrongly, or roughly; to ill-treat. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > harshness > [verb (transitive)] misbedeOE wait1303 beshrewc1325 misusea1382 mistreat1453 mishandle1530 misorder1550 mumble1588 maltreat1681 ill-treat1794 the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > ill-treatment > ill-treat [verb (transitive)] tuckc888 tawc893 misbedeOE graithc1330 to fare fair or foul with1340 misusea1382 outrayc1390 beshrewc1430 huspelc1440 misentreat1450 mistreat1453 abuse?1473 to mayne evil1481 demean1483 to put (a person) to villainya1513 harry1530 mishandle1530 touse1531 misorder1550 worrya1556 yark1565 mumble1588 buse1589 crow-tread1593 disabuse1607 maltreat1681 squeeze1691 ill-treat1794 punish1801 tousle1826 ill-use1841 razoo1890 mess1896 to play horse with1896 to bugger about1921 slug1925 to give (a person) the works1927 to kick about or around1938 mess1963 a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. 1869 The wardes of the cherch keie Thurgh mishandlinge ben myswreynt.] 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 637/2 It is nat well done to myshandell hym thus as you do. 1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius f. 257v There be some that are so beastly brutish that will mishandle the wordes and deedes of others, be they never so well spoken. a1617 Sir J. Melville Mem. Own Life (1735) 324 They were mishandled, ruffled and delayed here the Space of Months. 1823 W. Scott Quentin Durward II. xi. 261 It is a shame to see how they have mishandled the old man. 1827 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) IV. 93 He mishandled good subjects with great success. 1904 S. J. Weyman Abbess of Vlaye vii Solomon is old, and they may mishandle him. 1958 W. S. Churchill Hist. Eng.-speaking Peoples IV. xi. v. 166 The long, jaded, humiliated columns of brave men who had been so shamefully mishandled broke their ranks and almost dragged their restored commander from the saddle. 1983 E. Pizzey Watershed i. iii. 25 He mishandled the cork. The champagne exploded over the table. 1989 New Scientist 18 Mar. 29/1 In people with cystic fibrosis, many cells of the body mishandle salt, water and mucus. 3. transitive. To mismanage. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > be unskilled in [verb (transitive)] > manage unskilfully misleadc1225 misrulea1393 misgovernc1400 miscook?1507 mishandle1530 maladminister1649 mismanage1692 misconduct1755 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 689/1 I restore a mater, or processe that was mysse handled. 1616 F. Bacon Tract Commendams in Wks. (1827) VII. 319 The proceedings wherein had either been mis-reported or mis-handled. 1950 ‘C. S. Forester’ Mr. Midshipman Hornblower v. 114 He might mishandle whatever situation he found, and bring down obloquy and derision upon his head. 1978 M. Cox Structuring Therapeutic Process ii. 32 Whenever trainees presented their difficulties..they usually indicated that they had mishandled time, depth or mutuality. 1990 Independent on Sunday 12 Aug. (Business section) 5/5 Business is wasting up to £1 bn a year by mishandling direct response advertising. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.a1500 |
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