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A slip of the tongue? — no promises (anag)
Answer for the clue "A slip of the tongue? — no promises (anag) ", 10 letters:
spoonerism
Alternative clues for the word spoonerism
- "Blushing crow" for "crushing blow."
- Like this good clue, it might have you stuck!
- Hated the book, perhaps
- ''Let me sew you to your sheet,'' e.g
- A slip of the tongue? - no promises
- Burly chassis for Shirley Bassey, say?
- Chewing the doors, for example
- No promises to be broken? It sounds the wrong way round
- What each of the other four longest answers in this puzzle is
Word definitions for spoonerism in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1900, but according to OED in use at Oxford as early as 1885, involuntary transposition of sounds in two or more words (such as "shoving leopard" for "loving shepherd," "half-warmed fish" for "half-formed wish," "beery work speaking to empty wenches," etc.), ...
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.