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spoon-meat |
spoon-shaped |
spoonbill |
spoonbill catfish |
spoondrift |
spoonerism
| spooney
| spoonfeed
| spoonfeeding
| spoonflower
| spoonful
spoonerism
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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