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slip of the tongue

noun

1 slip of the tongue

An accidental and usually trivial mistake in speaking.

Roget 583: inarticulateness; stammering etc. v.; hesitation etc. v.; impediment in one's speech; titubancy, traulism; whisper etc. (faint sound) ... show more

Roget 495: error, fallacy; misconception, misapprehension, misstanding, misunderstanding; inexactness etc. adj.; laxity; misconstruction etc. (misinterpretation) 523; ... show more

Roget 568: solecism; bad grammar, false grammar, faulty grammar; slip of the pen, slip of the tongue; lapsus linguae [Lat.]; slipslop; bull; barbarism, impropriety.   

Dutch: slip of the tongue, verspreking
Polish: lapsus, przejęzyczenie


Moby thesaurus: balk, bevue, false move, false step, inadvertence, inadvertency, lapse, lapsus calami, lapsus linguae, loose thread, miscue, misstep, omission, oversight, slip, slipup, stumble, trip, wrong step.

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