dead amiss

English

Adjective

dead amiss (not comparable)

  1. (horse racing) Of a horse: too ill to compete.
    • 1840, John William Carleton, The Sporting Review (page 286)
      At the mention of the increased amount of odds, the snob took the youngster aside, and said to him, "Look now, by the book, we have the old man done brown; my horse is dead amiss, your cousin's horse you can beat easy, […]
    • 1870, Tresham Gilbey, Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes (volume 18, page 320)
      Sunshine ran gamely, but was clearly out of condition; and Gamos, who was dead amiss at Bath, having got round, beat her from the superiority of her training, […]

References
  • 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary
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