misdiet

English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ diet.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /mɪsˈdaɪət/

Noun

misdiet (countable and uncountable, plural misdiets)

Bad diet.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
  Full of diseases was his carcas blew, / And a dry dropsie through his flesh did flow: / Which by misdiet daily greater grew […]

Verb

misdiet (third-person singular simple present misdiets, present participle misdieting, simple past and past participle misdieted)

(intransitive) To diet improperly.

Anagrams

misedit, mistide, mistied, stimied

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