Word: spoonerisms
Category: spoonerisms
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Translations: spoonerisms
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german
Translations:
schüttelreime, Spoonerismen, Schüttelreime, Schüttelreimen
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french
Translations:
contrepèteries, des contrepèteries, contrepèterie
The meaning and "use of": spoonerisms
noun
- a verbal error in which a speaker accidentally transposes the initial sounds or letters of two or more words, often to humorous effect, as in the sentence you have hissed the mystery lectures , accidentally spoken instead of the intended sentence you have missed the history lectures. - The best-known of these are the sound transpositions called spoonerisms .
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