Crossword-Solution: MALAPROPISM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Malapropism | n. | A grotesque misuse of a word; a word so used. |
We have 10 clues for the answer “MALAPROPISM”
| Clue | Answers |
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| PARTIAL POST | 1 answer |
| Possible result of muddling one’s words | 1 answer |
| The mistaken use of a word in place of a similar sounding one | 2 answers |
| Hibernicism | 6 answers |
| amphigory | 6 answers |
| FALSE name | 11 answers |
| Irish bull | 12 answers |
| Practical joke | 12 answers |
| BARBARISM | 17 answers |
| Howler | 22 answers |
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Poet’s word, with inverted comma, for the end of the day
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Hint 1 meaning
The old plural of Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
ENE
Hint 3 another clue
AND STILL ___
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Sentences with MALAPROPISM (2)
Allegory--I mean _Anax andron_ on banks of Nile! Good--and not a Malapropism, whatever WOLSELEY may say.
Ellen Smith, I want you to say the first verse of Wordsworth's _Ode to the Imitations of Immorality_." "P-Please, sir," tittered Gladys, "the inspector's laughin' like onything!" I laughed immoderately, but it wasn't at Janet's malapropism that I laughed so much.
Quotes with MALAPROPISM (1)
Every problem of medicine is a problem of language, and this operation was a malapropism.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1987).