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单词 misshape
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misshapen.

Brit. /ˈmɪsʃeɪp/, /ˈmɪʃʃeɪp/, U.S. /ˈmɪsˌʃeɪp/, /ˈmɪ(ʃ)ˌʃeɪp/
Forms: Middle English messhapene (plural), Middle English mishappes (plural), Middle English myschap, Middle English myschappen (plural), Middle English myschapyn (plural), Middle English myschep (perhaps transmission error), Middle English myshappis (plural), Middle English mysshape, Middle English mysshapen (plural), 1500s myshape, 1500s 1800s– misshape, 1600s 1900s– mishape.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mis- prefix1, shape n.1
Etymology: < mis- prefix1 + shape n.1 Compare misshape v., misshapen v., misshapen adj., misshaping n., misshaped adj.As suggested in Middle Eng. Dict. s.v. misshap(e n., Middle English plural forms in -n could also be interpreted as showing use as noun of misshapen adj.
1. A misshapen body or person. Obsolete.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > [noun] > person
misshapec1400
counterfeit1557
hodmandod1664
zad1725
freak of nature1847
wingy1880
c1400 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Trin. Cambr. R.3.14) (1960) A. viii. 78 Þere ben mo mysshapen [v.rr. myschapyn, mysshape, myshappis; myschapmen, mischefes; c1400 B text mysshape peple; c1400 C text messhapene] amonges hem..Þanne of alle oþer maner men þat on þis molde wandriþ.
?a1500 (a1471) Brut (Lyell) in J. S. Davies Eng. Chron. (1856) 7 (MED) Edmund hadde a crokid bak and was a mysshape.
1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 223 Silenus..whom for his monstreous myshape,..Jupiter, Apollo [etc.],..used for their foole.
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 530 The divels of Crowland, with their..long tailed buttocks, & vgly mishapes.
a1675 B. Whitelocke Memorials Eng. Affairs (1682) anno 1654 578/2 Hardly to be called Men, or Women, by reason of their mishapes.
2. A misshapen thing; a bad or deformed shape or figure; deformity. Now: spec. a badly formed or broken manufactured item (esp. a sweet or biscuit), frequently sold cheaply.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > [noun]
crookedness1398
monstruosity1402
deformity1413
misfashioning1469
misfigurec1480
counterfeiturec1500
monstrosity1616
pravity1647
monstruousness1653
malformation1769
misformation1822
dysmorphia1848
misshape1867
aplasia1885
nanity1892
1867 R. M. Devens Pict. Bk. Anecd. War Rebellion (new ed.) ii. 166/2 Hats were crushed into every imaginable misshape.
1875 G. MacDonald Malcolm I. xxii. 281 Disorder and misshape must appear to it the law of the universe.
1976 Evening Post (Bristol) 23 Apr. 1/2 (advt.) 60 Birdseye Fishfingers (mishapes) 99p.
1992 Modest Pageant 169 Helen: Go to Tyrers and get some sweets. Bud: What sort? Helen: Oh—er—‘Misshapes’—the money's in me coat.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

misshapeadj.

Forms: Middle English myschap, Middle English myschape, Middle English myshap, Middle English mysshap, Middle English–1500s mysshape; Scottish pre-1700 mischape, pre-1700 myschaip.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mis- prefix1, shape , shape v.
Etymology: < mis- prefix1 + shape, past participle of shape v. Compare slightly earlier misshapen adj.
Obsolete.
= misshapen adj.
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the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > [adjective] > not shapely or deformed
unshapelyc1200
forcrookedc1305
deform1382
froward shapena1400
misshapena1400
deformedc1400
misshape1440
deformablec1450
disformatea1492
misshapeda1500
deformate?a1505
fashionless1581
unfashionable1597
shapeless1598
ill-proportioned1602
disformed1665
untrained1871
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 339 Myschape thynge yn kynde, monstruosus.
c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 7758 There met hym þis Mawhown þat was so mysshap.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

misshapev.

Brit. /ˌmɪsˈʃeɪp/, /ˌmɪʃˈʃeɪp/, U.S. /ˌmɪsˈʃeɪp/, /ˌmɪ(ʃ)ˈʃeɪp/
Forms: late Middle English myschapen (past participle), late Middle English myshapen (past participle), late Middle English mysshape (past participle), late Middle English mysshapen (past participle), 1500s myshappe, 1500s mysshappe, 1500s–1700s mishape, 1500s– misshape; also Scottish pre-1700 mischaip (past participle), pre-1700 myssape (past participle).
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mis- prefix1, shape v.
Etymology: < mis- prefix1 + shape v. Compare misshape n., misshapen v., misshapen adj., misshaping n., misshaped adj.
transitive. To alter (a person) from his or her normal shape; to give a bad, ugly, or incorrect shape to; to deform; to distort, pervert, misrepresent.
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the world > space > shape > misshapenness > put out of shape [verb (transitive)]
deformc1400
misshapec1450
misshapenc1450
misform1483
misfashiona1525
bring1530
misfigure1563
disjoint1638
dislocate1660
forshape1884
c1450 Mandeville's Trav. (Coventry) (1973) 722 ‘I am but a daie in the yere A woman’..And tolde hym..For þat sho myschapen wasse.
a1500 (?c1450) Merlin 679 (MED) He..is no duerf by nature, but thus hath a damesell hym myschapen [Fr. latourna].
1530 Myroure Oure Ladye (Fawkes) (1873) ii. 98 Oure..soulle..ys made to hys lykenesse, but yt was defoyled and darkyd and mysshape by synne.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 637/2 I myshappe, or bring out of facyon.
?1553 (c1501) G. Douglas Palice of Honour (London) i. l. 742 in Shorter Poems (1967) 52 Bot sore I dred me..That Venus suld..In till sum bysnyng best transfigurit me. As in a bere, [etc.]..I traistit so for till haue bene myssape.
1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie cix. 669 Such as mishape thinges by their inchauntments.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. v. sig. Q8 Whom..she does transforme..And horribly misshapes with vgly sightes.
1662 R. Brathwait Chimneys Scuffle 12 They mis-shape the Beauty of their features.
1682 J. Howe Self-ded. 134 They do strangely mishape Religion..that frame to themselves a Religion made up of..doubts and fears.
1703 J. Savage tr. Select Coll. Lett. Antients viii. 49 Mishape me, if you please, into any Monstrous Form.
1798 S. T. Coleridge Picture in Poems (1864) 157 A thousand circlets spread And each mis~shape the other.
1858 W. Greener Gunnery in 1858 436 If the distance the drops fall be not sufficiently great, and they reach the water in a semi-fluid state, the resistance of the water mis~shapes them.
1870 G. P. Belden Belden, White Chief xx. 159 The bottom of the wrapping would misshape its feet and legs.
1964 R. K. Narayan Gods, Demons & Others (1994) i. 44 Old age..misshapes a man and destroys intelligence and judgement.
1983 J. Jones Dostoevsky 244 It's not that he ceases altogether to be the eternal student, but that he becomes reshaped and misshaped into an aberration.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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