1. a person who places something in the wrong location or loses track of where something is
Usage: rare

Examples

• The chronic mislayer of keys finally installed a key hook by the door.
• As the office mislayer, she was always searching for missing documents.
• He was known as a mislayer of important papers.
• The mislayer spent twenty minutes looking for her glasses.
• Being a habitual mislayer made him invest in a phone tracker app.