spoonerism

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Noun
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spoon=er=ism

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun spoonerism has 1 sense

OXFORD DICTIONARY

spoonerism, n. a transposition, usu. accidental, of the initial letters etc. of two or more words, e.g. you have hissed the mystery lectures.

Etymology
Revd W. A. Spooner, English scholar d. 1930, reputed to make such errors in speaking

THESAURUS

spoonerism

Irish bull, abuse of terms, acronym, acrostic, amphibologism, amphiboly, anacoluthon, anagram, avyayibhava, back formation, bull, calembour, catachresis, clipped word, compound, conjugate, construction, corruption, dvandva, dvigu, endocentric compound, equivocality, equivoque, exocentric compound, fluff, folk etymology, formation, grammatical error, hypercorrection, hyperform, jeu de mots, logogram, logogriph, malaprop, malapropism, marrowsky, metagram, mispronunciation, missaying, misusage, palindrome, paronomasia, paronym, play on words, pun, punning, solecism, tatpurusha, word form, wordplay

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