mishap
/ˈmɪshæp/ noun C1- An accident, mistake, or problem. · Since the mishap with the banana peel, he watches his step.
- Ill luck; misfortune; mischance.
Plural mishaps
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He called to her and earnestly begged her to come lower down, lest she fall by some mishap; and he added that the meadows lay where he was standing, and that the herbage was most tender.
It never hurt him, however, and Dorothy would pick him up and set him upon his feet again, while he joined her in laughing merrily at his own mishap.
The eggs, allowing for all mishaps, will produce two hundred and fifty chickens.
When he had finished, he thanked her kindly and oiled himself thoroughly with his jeweled oil-can, to guard against mishap.
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