Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Ill luck; misfortune.
- To meet, with ill luck; miscarry.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Ill luck; misfortune.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Ill luck ;misfortune . - verb intransitive To meet with
ill luck ;miscarry .
Etymologies
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From mis- + luck.
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Examples
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The very same lot, also, with the like misluck, did betide the
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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The very same lot, also, with the like misluck, did betide the
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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The very same lot, also, with the like misluck, did betide the Emperor Gordian the younger.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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He heard Æsop say, dryly, "Some men of Italy are fools," and might perchance have flamed again, to his misluck, but that Staupitz, breathing thickly in his ear, whispered: "Idiot, he mocks a Mantuan.
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