MISMANAGE, MISMANAGED, MISMANAGEMENT, MISMANAGING
ADJECTIVES
► SHAMBOLIC inept, mismanaged → L20 colloq.
NOUNS
► MALMANAGEMENT mismanagement → 1776 Sc. obs.
NOUNS – PERSON
► DAGE a trollop; a dirty, mismanaging woman, a slut, a tatterdemalion → 1825 Sc.
VERBS
► BLUNK to bungle; to spoil a thing; to mismanage → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► DAIDLE to mismanage; to do any work in a slovenly way → 1808 Sc. obs.
► ILL-GUIDE to mismanage → 1845 Sc.
► MARGULLIE ► MURGULLY to disfigure, to mar, to mangle; to mismanage, to abuse; to mar any business; to bungle → 1721 Sc. obs.
► MARTYR to bungle, to mismanage, to confuse, to spoil; to work in a dirty and clumsy manner → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)
► MISCOOK to mismanage any business, to bungle → 1825 Sc.
► MISGUIDE to mismanage; to waste, to squander; to mis-spend → 1792 Sc.
► MISLIPPEN to neglect, to overlook; to mismanage → 1825 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► MIS-SORT to mismanage, to treat wrongly → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
Lexicophilia 