mishanter

American  

[mi-shan-ter] / mɪˈʃæn tər /

noun

Scot. and North England.

1. a misfortune; mishap.

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Etymology

Origin of mishanter

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

Example Sentences

When idly goavan whyles we saunter Yirr, fancy barks, awa’ we canter Uphill, down brae, till some mishanter, Some black bog-hole, Arrests us, then the scathe an’ banter We’re forced to thole.

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert

He has planted his foot where it lighted by mishanter, and a’ the guid an’ ill in Scotland wadna budge him frae the spot.”

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 2 Historical, Traditional, and Imaginative by Wilson, John Mackay

You have been silent, Innes," said Sandy, "for the last half-hour, and look as wae and anxious as if some terrible mishanter had befallen ye.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 12 by Various