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"Blushing crow" for "crushing blow."
Answer for the clue ""Blushing crow" for "crushing blow." ", 10 letters:
spoonerism
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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.), ...
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. transposition of initial consonants in a pair of words
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Two other special interest groups are SIGVOICE, concentrating on topics ranging from accents to spoonerisms, and SIGTRAN, dedicated to the art of translation.