slip of the tongue as a noun: - 1
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)
405;
lisp,
drawl,
tardiloquence†;
nasal tone,
nasal accent;
twang;
falsetto
etc.
(want of voice)
581;
broken voice,
broken accents,
broken sentences.
brogue
etc.
563;
slip of the tongue,
lapsus linouae [Lat.].
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Roget 495:
error,
fallacy;
misconception,
misapprehension,
misstanding†,
misunderstanding;
inexactness
etc.
adj.;
laxity;
misconstruction
etc.
(misinterpretation)
523;
miscomputation
etc.
(misjudgment)
481;
non sequitur
etc.
477;
mis-statement,
mis-report;
mumpsimus†.
mistake;
miss,
fault,
blunder,
quiproquo,
cross purposes,
oversight,
misprint,
erratum,
corrigendum,
slip,
blot,
flaw,
loose thread;
trip,
stumble
etc.
(failure)
732;
botchery
etc.
(want of skill)
699†;
slip of the tongue,
slip of the lip,
Freudian slip;
slip of the pen;
lapsus linguae [Lat.],
clerical error;
bull
etc.
(absurdity)
497;
haplography†.
illusion,
delusion;
snare;
false impression,
false idea;
bubble;
self-decit,
self-deception;
mists of error.
heresy
etc.
(heterodoxy)
984;
hallucination
etc.
(insanity)
503;
false light
etc.
(fallacy of vision)
443;
dream
etc.
(fancy)
515;
fable
etc.
(untruth)
546;
bias
etc.
(misjudgment)
481;
misleading
etc.
v..
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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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