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Malaprop   /mˈæləprˌɑp/   Listen
Malaprop

noun
1.
The unintentional misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds similar.  Synonym: malapropism.





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"Malaprop" Quotes from Famous Books



... call you a little Uncle Maurice instead,' said Aunt Jane. 'How things come round! Perhaps you would not believe, Gill, that Aunt Ada was once in a scrape, when she was our Mrs. Malaprop, for applying that same epithet ...
— Beechcroft at Rockstone • Charlotte M. Yonge


Words linked to "Malaprop" :   misstatement


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