mishanter

[mi-shan-ter]

noun Scot. and North England.

a misfortune; mishap.

Also mischanter.

Origin of mishanter

1745–55; variant of misaunter, equivalent to mis-¹ + aunter, variant of obsolete aventure adventure

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