eggcornn.

Brit.

/ˈɛɡkɔːn/, U.S.

/ˈɛɡˌkɔrn/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: egg n., corn n.¹

Etymology: < egg n. + corn n.¹, as folk-etymological alteration of acorn n. (In sense 2 used as a name for this sort of folk-etymological alteration.)

1. = acorn n.

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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > nut > [noun] > acorn

acorneOE

gland1631

eggcorn1844

belloot1866

1844 S. G. McMahan Let. 16 June in A. L. Hurtado John Sutter (2006) 130 I hope you are as harty as you ust to be and that you have plenty of egg corn [acorn] bread which I cann not get her[e] and I hope to help you eat some of it soon.

1983 Hawk Eye (Burlington, Iowa) 24 Apr. 23 (caption) Paper sacks held a variety of ‘recyclable’ goods including ladies' shoes, pine cones, walnuts, used toys and, according to their sign, eggcorns (acorns).

2007 D. Hart Dark Day of Soul xii. 271 ‘Let's go out and round up alla acorns we can find.’ ‘Egg corns?’

2. An alteration of a word or phrase through the mishearing or reinterpretation of one or more of its elements as a similar-sounding word.In allusion to sense 1, which is an example of such an alteration.

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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > inaccuracy, inexactness > incorrectness of language > [noun] > incorrect application of words > instance of

miswording1804

eggcorn2003

2003 M. Liberman Egg Corns: Folk Etymol., Malapropism, Mondegreen, ???: update in languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu 30 Sept. (Internet Archive Wayback Machine 8 Oct. 2003) Geoff Pullum suggests that if no suitable term already exists for cases like this, we should call them ‘egg corns’, in the metonymic tradition of ‘mondegreen’.

2004 Boston Globe (Nexis) 12 Dec. k5 Shakespeare's Hamlet said he was ‘to the manner born’, but the eggcorn ‘to the manor born’ has wide currency.

2006 New Scientist 26 Aug. 52/2 Eggcorns often involve replacing an unfamiliar or archaic word with a more common one, such as ‘old-timer's’ disease for Alzheimer's.

2010 K. Denham & A. Lobeck Linguistics for Everyone i. 13 Crucially, eggcorns make sense, often more than the original words.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	eggcorn
释义	eggcornn. Brit. /ˈɛɡkɔːn/, U.S. /ˈɛɡˌkɔrn/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: egg n., corn n.¹ Etymology: < egg n. + corn n.¹, as folk-etymological alteration of acorn n. (In sense 2 used as a name for this sort of folk-etymological alteration.) 1. = acorn n. ΘΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > nut > [noun] > acorn acorneOE gland1631 eggcorn1844 belloot1866 1844 S. G. McMahan Let. 16 June in A. L. Hurtado John Sutter (2006) 130 I hope you are as harty as you ust to be and that you have plenty of egg corn [acorn] bread which I cann not get her[e] and I hope to help you eat some of it soon. 1983 Hawk Eye (Burlington, Iowa) 24 Apr. 23 (caption) Paper sacks held a variety of ‘recyclable’ goods including ladies' shoes, pine cones, walnuts, used toys and, according to their sign, eggcorns (acorns). 2007 D. Hart Dark Day of Soul xii. 271 ‘Let's go out and round up alla acorns we can find.’ ‘Egg corns?’ 2. An alteration of a word or phrase through the mishearing or reinterpretation of one or more of its elements as a similar-sounding word.In allusion to sense 1, which is an example of such an alteration. ΘΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > inaccuracy, inexactness > incorrectness of language > [noun] > incorrect application of words > instance of miswording1804 eggcorn2003 2003 M. Liberman Egg Corns: Folk Etymol., Malapropism, Mondegreen, ???: update in languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu 30 Sept. (Internet Archive Wayback Machine 8 Oct. 2003) Geoff Pullum suggests that if no suitable term already exists for cases like this, we should call them ‘egg corns’, in the metonymic tradition of ‘mondegreen’. 2004 Boston Globe (Nexis) 12 Dec. k5 Shakespeare's Hamlet said he was ‘to the manner born’, but the eggcorn ‘to the manor born’ has wide currency. 2006 New Scientist 26 Aug. 52/2 Eggcorns often involve replacing an unfamiliar or archaic word with a more common one, such as ‘old-timer's’ disease for Alzheimer's. 2010 K. Denham & A. Lobeck Linguistics for Everyone i. 13 Crucially, eggcorns make sense, often more than the original words. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1844
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