Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - malapropism
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Malapropism
malapropism
noun Etymology: Mrs. Malaprop, character noted for her misuse of words in R. B. Sheridan's comedy The Rivals (1775) Date: 1849 1. the usually unintentionally humorous misuse or distortion of a word or phrase; especially the use of a word sounding somewhat like the one intended but ludicrously wrong in the context 2. malaprop • malapropist noun
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n. (also malaprop) the use of a word in mistake for one sounding similar, to comic effect, e.g. allegory for alligator. Etymology: Mrs Malaprop (f. MALAPROPOS) in Sheridan's The Rivals (1775) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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~ n an amusing mistake made by using a word that sounds similar to the word you intended to say but means something completely different ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- 1834, from Mrs. Malaprop, character in Sheridan's play "The Rivals" (1775), noted for her ridiculous misuse of large words (i.e. "contagious countries" for "contiguous countries"), her name coined from malapropos (1668), a borrowing from Fr. mal а propos "badly for the purpose," from proposer "propose." ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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