Definition of Malaprops

1. Noun. (plural of malaprop) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Malaprops

1. malaprop [n] - See also: malaprop

Lexicographical Neighbors of Malaprops

malaperts
malaphor
malaphors
malapplied
malapportioned
malapportionment
malaprop
malapropian
malapropic
malapropism
malapropisms
malapropist
malapropistic
malapropists
malapropos
malaprops (current term)
malapterurid
malapterurids
malapterurus
malar
malar arch
malar bone
malar flush
malar fold
malar foramen
malar lymph node
malar node
malar point
malar process
malaria

Literary usage of Malaprops

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The King's English by Henry Watson Fowler, Francis George Fowler (1906)
"The rest of this chapter will be devoted to more special and definite points—malaprops, neologisms, Americanisms, foreign words, bad formations, slang, ..."

2. Practical Rhetoric by John Duncan Quackenbos (1896)
"malaprops. He who studies a language without caring to know where it comes from, and what are the laws that rule the formation of its words, ..."

3. Language in the Making: A Word Study by Wilhelmina M. Thoma (1922)
"... popular and learned — elegant English — newspaper English — malaprops. WHEN man first desired to express in language his impression of some new object ..."

4. The King's English Abridged for School Use by Henry Watson Fowler, Francis George Fowler (1918)
"malaprops A malaprop is a word used in the belief that it has the meaning of another word that it resembles in some particular. i. Words containing the same ..."

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