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SPOONERISM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does spoonerism mean? 

SPOONERISM (noun)
  The noun SPOONERISM has 1 sense:

1. transposition of initial consonants in a pair of wordsplay

  Familiarity information: SPOONERISM used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SPOONERISM (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Transposition of initial consonants in a pair of words

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("spoonerism" is a kind of...):

slip of the tongue (an accidental and usually trivial mistake in speaking)


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