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malapropismmal‧a‧prop‧is‧m /ˈmæləprɒpɪzəm $ -prɑː-/ noun [countable] literary  malapropismOrigin: 1800-1900 Mrs Malaprop character who uses words wrongly in the play The Rivals (1775) by Richard Sheridan, from French mal à propos ‘not appropriate’ - In spite of his inane malapropisms, he can talk circles around everyone else in the book.
- This is really a kind of malapropism.
an amusing mistake that you make when you use a word that sounds similar to the word you intended to say but means something completely different |