mis-mis-mis-dash

Updated: June 29, 2025

Young Mooney was asked into the house, on account of his dad being there; and he swears he never heard anything like Alf's style; though the stubborn devil would n't sing a word; nothing but play. And he was just as good on the piano as on the fiddle, though his hand must have been badly out. Mooney thinks he jibbed on singing because the women were there. Alf's a mis-mis-mis-dash it"

Joseph Furphy - Such Is Life