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Definition of Malaprops
1. malaprop [n] - See also: malaprop
Lexicographical Neighbors of Malaprops
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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