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Comical transposition
Answer for the clue "Comical transposition ", 10 letters:
spoonerism
Alternative clues for the word spoonerism
- Reverend's mistake: lovey-dovey type is married
- Trump the jack, e.g.
- Lack of pies, say
- Something said by self-described birdwatcher?
- "Blushing crow" for "crushing blow."
- "Let me sew you to your sheet," e.g
- Fighting a liar, e.g.
- Loose Brie, for example
- Transposition of initial consonants in a pair of words
Word definitions for spoonerism in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A play on words on a phrase in which the initial (usually consonantal) sounds of two or more of the main words are transposed.
Usage examples of spoonerism.
Two other special interest groups are SIGVOICE, concentrating on topics ranging from accents to spoonerisms, and SIGTRAN, dedicated to the art of translation.