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A slip of the tongue? - no promises
Answer for the clue "A slip of the tongue? - no promises ", 10 letters:
spoonerism
Alternative clues for the word spoonerism
- Fighting a liar, e.g.
- Transposition of initial consonants in a pair of words
- Lack of pies, say
- Burly chassis for Shirley Bassey, say?
- What each of the other four longest answers in this puzzle is
- A slip of the tongue? — no promises (anag)
- "Hoobert Heever," e.g.
- "Let me sew you to your sheet," e.g
- Comical transposition
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.