misgrab
/ˈmɪsɡɹæb/
Etymology
From mis- + grab.
misgrab means A failed attempt to grab something. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
misgrab is pronounced /ˈmɪsɡɹæb/.
noun
- A failed attempt to grab something.“He hauls in the twenty yards of it in frantic haste, making many a misgrab and getting more excited, I'll warrant, than he ever was with any but his first bear.”
- A mistake.“It is easy for the American visitor to make a “misgrab” here because, blinded by the surface similarities, he fails to take the hidden differences into consideration.”
verb
- To fail in an attempt to grab something“[…] misgrabbing or catching an apparatus or opponent”