Definition of Slip of the tongue

1. Noun. An accidental and usually trivial mistake in speaking.

Generic synonyms: Misstatement
Specialized synonyms: Spoonerism

Definition of Slip of the tongue

1. Noun. (idiomatic) A mistake in speech. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Slip Of The Tongue

slip by
slip carriage
slip case
slip clutch
slip coach
slip down
slip friction clutch
slip in
slip into
slip into something more comfortable
slip knot
slip noose
slip nooses
slip of paper
slip of the pen
slip of the tongue (current term)
slip off
slip on
slip one's mind
slip out
slip ring
slip rings
slip road
slip roads
slip sheet
slip someone's mind
slip stitch
slip through the cracks
slip under the radar
slip up

Literary usage of Slip of the tongue

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

1. Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun by Louise-Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, Lionel Strachey (1903)
"CAMPAN — AN ENGLISHWOMAN'S slip of the tongue SOME DISTINGUISHED FOREIGNERS. ON my arrival in Paris at our house in the Rue Gros Chenet, M. Lebrun, ..."

2. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"On which the jarl made a slip of the tongue. He said, " We shall be old enough when this fire is burnt out." But he meant to have said, "We shall be warm ..."

3. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1902)
"On which the jarl made a slip of the tongue. He said, "We shall be old enough when this fire is burnt out." But he meant to have said, "We shall be warm ..."

4. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1904)
""A verbal inaccuracy in a charge, resulting from a palpable 'slip of the tongue,' and which clearly could not have misled the jury, is not cause for a new ..."

5. A New Malagasy-English Dictionary by James Richardson (1885)
"A slip of the tongue, an unbecoming expression. speaking of a native with a fair lost his companions. skin ; lit. a European who has Di'so ..."

6. A General introduction to psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud (1920)
"This fact in itself must prove to us that he considers the error, the slip of the tongue for instance, as meaningful; for he creates it on purpose, ..."

7. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1911)
"My slip of the tongue, therefore, registered my desire that any library fire should be in some other place than in my home, and if possible in a ..."

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