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malapropism

noun

1 malapropism

The unintentional misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds similar.

synonym: malaprop.

Roget 563: neology, neologism; newfangled expression, nonce expression; back-formation; caconym; barbarism.    archaism, black letter, monkish Latin.    corruption, missaying, malapropism, antiphrasis.    ... show more

Dutch: verhaspeling
Polish: malapropizm


Moby thesaurus: Irish bull, abuse of terms, acrostic, alliteration, allusion, amphibologism, amphiboly, anacoluthon, anadiplosis, anagram, analogy, anaphora, anastrophe, antiphrasis, antithesis, antonomasia, apophasis, aporia, aposiopesis, apostrophe ... show more.

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