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Definition of Malaprop
1. Noun. The unintentional misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds similar.
Definition of Malaprop
1. Adjective. Characterized by the use of malapropisms. ¹
2. Noun. A malapropism. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Malaprop
1. a humorous misuse of a word [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Malaprop
Literary usage of Malaprop
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Plays by Albert Ellery Bergh (1900)
"malaprop.—I am impatient to know how the little hussy deports herself. ...
malaprop.—An ill-tempered little devil! She'll be in a passion all her life—will ..."
2. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"Mrs. malaprop — There's a little intricate hussy for you! ... Sir Anthony — In
my way hither, Mrs. malaprop, I observed your niece's maid coming forth from ..."
3. An Introduction to the Study of Literature: For the Use of Secondary and by Edwin Herbert Lewis (1899)
"Why, Mrs. malaprop, in moderation now, what would you have a woman know? Mrs.
malaprop. Observe me, Sir Anthony, I would by no means wish a daughter of mine ..."
4. An Introduction to the Study of Literature: For the Use of Secondary and by Edwin Herbert Lewis (1899)
"Why, Mrs. malaprop, in moderation now, what would you have a woman know? Mrs.
malaprop. Observe me, Sir Anthony, I would by no means wish a daughter of mine ..."
5. Irish Literature by Justin McCarthy, Maurice Francis Egan, Douglas Hyde, Charles Welsh, Gregory, James Jeffrey Roche (1904)
"Mrs. malaprop. I am impatient to know how the little hussy deports herself. ...
Mrs. malaprop. An ill-tempered little devil! She'll be in a passion all her ..."
6. British Poets of the Nineteenth Century by Curtis Hidden Page (1910)
"For sometimes he like Cerberus would seem— Good Mrs. malaprop); then you might
deem That he was not even оле ; now many rays Were flashing round him ..."
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