Sunday, August 24, 2025

Appointment Fail? It's a "Mistryst"

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To mistryst means "to miss or skip an appointment," leaving the other person hanging. Built from the prefix "mis-" plus "tryst" ("planned meeting"), it first cropped up in 17th-century Scotland. Does it still count as ghosting if you innocently mistryst someone?

WORD OF THE DAY

August 24, 2025

mistryst

[ mis-trahyst ] verb

to fail to meet or to keep an appointment with someone

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