Spoonerisms

Word SPOONERISMS
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Definitions and meanings of "Spoonerisms"

What do we mean by spoonerisms?

A play on words on a phrase in which the initial (usually consonantal) sounds of two or more of the main words are transposed.

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The word "spoonerisms" in example sentences

Shakespeare used that phrase, which makes me wonder what the English called spoonerisms before Rev.W. A. was born in 1844. ❋ Unknown (1984)

The Hint of Print in Your Breath is a Mint of Divinest Flavor: A Note on Printed Spoonerisms Norman W.rd, in his witty article on spoonerisms [XI, 1] wonders "what the English called spoonerisms before Rev.W. A. was born in 1844," and notes that "the word has no synonym." ❋ Unknown (1984)

Emery R. W.lker, Jr. Claremont, California Anent Norman W.rd's article [XI,1], "I wonder what the English called spoonerisms before the R.v.W. A. was born in ❋ Unknown (1985)

The convention itself was superbly run and featured a lot of great dancing, including several unusual specialty tips: the Cipher tip with calls delivered as spoonerisms or riddles, a Mirror tip that swapped left for right (if your square breaks down during a Mirror tip, is that seven years bad luck?), and an hour of six-couple "rectangle dancing." ❋ Bibliocub (2009)

* The scholars in our mists might be all wondering to what to attribute the spoonerisms. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Before you left, you gave us a creative challenge involving spoonerisms. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And it did involve spoonerisms where you interchange the initial consonant sounds of two words to get two new words. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And you know spoonerisms, where you interchange the initial consonant sounds of two words to get two new words. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But Betty Hunt (a name ripe for spoonerisms if ever there was one) put paid to that with her far left extremist activism. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Like spoonerisms, this is a natural consequence of the way the brain stores associative memories. ❋ Unknown (2009)

May 27, 2009 at 5:53 am ai luv teh spoonerisms, hee hee ❋ Unknown (2009)

So all the mistatements, errors in fact, malapropisms, spoonerisms, and instances of hilariously mangled grammar and syntax lovingly collected in dozens of books, websites, calendars - they were all deliberate, constructe with "care and precision"? ❋ CC (2008)

But perhaps the Bushisms column has a broader mandate than the Bushisms book, or both are meant to be a mix not just of “malapropisms, solecisms, gaffes, spoonerisms, and truisms” — which are either mistakes (the first four) or vacuousness, which one might think of as a substantive mistake — but also just things that are “funny for whatever reason.” ❋ Unknown (2004)

And in any event, might it not be better for the Bushisms column to include links to the transcripts, so that readers can see for themselves what the context might be (especially if they assume that most Bushisms are indeed “malapropisms, solecisms, gaffes, spoonerisms, and truisms” rather than just “funny for whatever reason”)? ❋ Unknown (2004)

Stymy remembered now: such switches were called spoonerisms. ❋ Anthony, Piers (2006)

Roseate spoonbills uttering spoonerisms — Carol Jacob. ❋ Anthony, Piers (2006)

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