spoonerism
noun[C]
languageuk/ˈspuː.nər.ɪ.zəm/us/ˈspuː.nɚ.ɪ.zəm/amistakemade whenspeakingin which the firstsoundsof two words areexchangedwith each other toproducea notintendedand usuallyfunnymeaning:
首音误置,首音互换(说话时误将两个单词的首音调换,常会造成滑稽效果)TheReverendWilliam Spooner used toproducespoonerisms such as "ascoopofboytrouts"insteadof what hemeantto say - "atroopofboyscouts".威廉•斯普纳牧师过去说话时常将首音误置,如本来想说 a troop of boy scouts,却说成 a scoop of boy trouts。
Linguistic terms & linguistic style
- affricate
- allophone
- allophony
- anaphor
- anaphora
- chatty
- colloquial
- distributive
- double entendre
- downtoner
- emphatic
- entailment
- etymological
- flowery
- oxymoron
- parallelism
- philological
- polysemy
- portmanteau word
- prescriptivism