From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Mishap \Mis*hap"\, verb (used without an object) To happen unluckily; -- used impersonally. [Obs.] ''If that me mishap.'' --Chaucer.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Mishap \Mis*hap"\, noun Evil accident; ill luck; misfortune; mischance. --Chaucer.
Secure from worldly chances and mishaps. --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: an unpredictable outcome that is unfortunate; "if I didn't have bad luck I wouldn't have any luck at all" [syn: {bad luck}, {mischance}]
2: an instance of misfortune [syn: {misadventure}, {mischance}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
27 Moby Thesaurus words for "mishap": accident, adversity, blow, calamity, casualty, cataclysm, catastrophe, collision, contretemps, crack-up, crash, disaster, dole, grief, ill hap, misadventure, mischance, misfortune, nasty blow, pileup, shipwreck, shock, smash, smashup, staggering blow, tragedy, wreck
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
MISHAP Early system on IBM 1103 or 1103A. Listed in CACM 2(5):16, (May 1959).
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