Malapropism

Language: English

Pronunciation: mal-aprop-ism

Part of Speech: noun

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The blundering use of an absurdly inappropriate word or expression in place of a similar-sounding one.

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"the unintentional misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds similar"

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