![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
prettygoodwordmistryst (mis-TRAIST) - (Scot. & N. Eng.) v., to fail to keep a meeting (with someone); to be puzzled or confused (by something).
Apparently in Scotland and Northern England, tryst does not necessarily connote a romantic rendezvous but can be any sort of meeting. To fail to tryst, then, can be easily coined (and was by the 1820s) using the mis- prefix in the sense of failure.
---L.
Apparently in Scotland and Northern England, tryst does not necessarily connote a romantic rendezvous but can be any sort of meeting. To fail to tryst, then, can be easily coined (and was by the 1820s) using the mis- prefix in the sense of failure.
---L.
