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▪ I. misfit, n.|mɪsˈfɪt|
[f. mis-1 4 + fit n.3]
1. A garment or other article which does not fit the person for whom it is intended. Also transf. and fig.; spec. a person unsuited to his environment, work, etc.
1823J. Bee Dict. Turf, etc., Misfits—clothes which do not suit the wearer's shape. Hence, ‘'tis a misfit’, when a story, or some endeavour fails of its effect, then ‘it von't fit’. 1851–61Mayhew Lond. Labour III. 232/2 There are a number of [artificial] eyes come over from France, but these are generally what we call misfits. 1862M. E. Braddon Lady Audley II. ii. 19 Her mouth..was an obvious misfit for the set of teeth it contained. 1865Cornh. Mag. June 645 There are some unfortunate people in this world, whose names are—how can I express it?—whose names are, Misfits. 1865Knight Passages Work. Life III. x. 213 [The] shoemaker..would occasionally have a misfit or two on his hands. 1903C. E. Osborne Father Dolling vi, Amid the streets of Landport Father Dolling was no deplorable misfit. 1936Discovery Sept. 280/1 The selection and training of personnel to eliminate as far as possible the misfit and (what is far more prevalent) the partial misfit who just stands the test of results but has really missed his vocation. 1939T. S. Eliot Family Reunion i. ii. 55 The very moment when you are wholly conscious Of being a misfit, of being superfluous. 1959Times Lit. Suppl. 30 Jan. 57/1 He is a determined individualist, wears Afrika Korps uniform while serving in the British Army and is something of a misfit. 1975Times 20 Aug. 4/8 The police..said young misfits were taking as their victims other car drivers.
attrib.1910Encycl. Brit. XIV. 223/2 The advantage of this combination is that..it..lessens the danger of making ‘misfit’ pig iron, i.e. that which, because it is not accurately suited to the process for which it is intended, offers us the dilemma [etc.]. 1961A. Miller Misfits xi. 117 Nothin' but misfit horses, that's all they are, honey.
2. Physical Geogr. A stream which, if its average flow in the past was at present-day levels, would be expected to have eroded a larger or a smaller valley than it has done. Usu. attrib. or as adj.
1910Lake & Rastall Text-bk. Geol. iii. 47 In this case the lower part of valley A is left dry, or with an insignificant stream only, which appears to be too small to have eroded the valley in which it flows. Such a stream is called a misfit. 1932Jrnl. Geol. XL. 486 (heading) Misfit streams. 1964Prof. Papers U.S. Geol. Survey No. 452-a. 6/1 Streams recognized as misfit are so usually underfit that the two names are frequently interchanged. 1968R. W. Fairbridge Encycl. Geomorphol. 706/2 The most commonly recognized case of a misfit stream is the underfit river.
▪ II. misˈfit, v.
[Partly f. mis-1 1 + fit v., partly f. prec. n.]
trans. and intr. To fail to fit, fit badly.
1885W. Allingham in Athenæum 3 Oct. 435/1 No luck misfits thee, Ivy, great or mean, Mirthful or solemn. 1887Twin Soul II. iii. 32 Every truth..is a link in one eternal and infinite chain, and cannot possibly misfit with or contradict any other. 1894Outing (U.S.) XXIV. 244/2 His garments all misfitted him so astonishingly.
So misˈfitting vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1851I. Taylor Wesley & Methodism 233 The misfitting of the twelve volumes [of Wesley's Writings] to the times current. 1896Allbutt's Syst. Med. I. 464 Mis-fitting boots. |