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Definition of Spoonerism
1. Noun. Transposition of initial consonants in a pair of words.
Definition of Spoonerism
1. Noun. A play on words on a phrase in which the initial (usually consonantal) sounds of two or more of the main words are transposed. ¹
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Definition of Spoonerism
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spoonerism
Literary usage of Spoonerism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1911)
"'This replacing of the initial letter of a word by that of another word, typically
from the same sentence, is known in Oxford as a spoonerism, on account of ..."
2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1849)
"Did that work contain any •spoonerisms or pre-spoonerism s ? BELFAST. SONGS
WANTED (cxlvi. 66).—The song •JHL wishes is called ' A Dream of the Albert Hall ..."
3. Sissano: Movements of Migration Within and Through Melanesia by William Churchill (1916)
"... metathesis would produce "cun dow," which might pass muster as a spoonerism,
but which certainly wrecks the sense of each word. 55. m&l perineal band. ..."
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