slip of the tongue
something that you say by accident when you intended to say something else:
I called her new boyfriend by her previous boyfriend's name - it was just a slip of the tongue.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Faults and mistakes
- a blot on sb's character idiom
- aberration
- Achilles heel
- adrift
- black mark
- chink
- clinker
- creep in/creep into sth
- errata
- erratum
- error
- failing
- false alarm
- false move
- irregularity
- lapse
- loophole
- misprint
- misspell
- mistake
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