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Definition of Slip of the tongue
1. Noun. An accidental and usually trivial mistake in speaking.
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
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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