Malapropism

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  • noun. Ludicrous misuse of a word, especially by confusion with one of similar sound.
  • noun. An example of such misuse.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act or habit of misapplying words through an ambition to use fine language.
  • noun. A word so misapplied.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A grotesque misuse of a word; a word so used.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The blundering use of an absurdly inappropriate word or expression in place of a similar sounding one.
  • noun. An instance of this; malaprop.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the unintentional misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds similar
    • Word Usage
    "Did you ever wonder where the word malapropism came from?"
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    misstatement  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Irish bull  abuse of terms  acrostic  alliteration  allusion  
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