spoonerism
IPA: spˈunɝɪzʌm
noun
- A play on words on a phrase in which the initial (usually consonantal) sounds of two or more of the main words are transposed.
- Alternative letter-case form of spoonerism. [A play on words on a phrase in which the initial (usually consonantal) sounds of two or more of the main words are transposed.]
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Examples of "spoonerism" in Sentences
- Can you briefly just explain the spoonerism conceit?
- You know a spoonerism is when interchange consonant sounds.
- You gave us a challenge last week, which we haven't had one of these in the while, the spoonerism.
- The only spoonerism which is possibly authentic comes in his announcement of a hymn as "Kinkering kongs."
- I'd like you to write a riddle starting: What's the difference between, in which the answer involves a spoonerism.
- I'd like you to write a riddle starting: What's the difference between - in which the answer involves a spoonerism.
- He looked particularly fetching dressed up as the "Gairy Fodmother" in a Canterbury convent's "spoonerism" Halloween party.
- This is curious, for it seems, on the evidence of those who knew him best, that the spoonerism was a verbal felicity which he did not perpetrate.
- RUCerious Brought to you by MalWart your source for cheap plastic crap says: continued after fat finger … also enjoy a good spoonerism like rucking fepublicans …
- I asked you to write a riddle starting with what's the different between in which the answer involves a spoonerism, where you interchange the initial consonant sounds of two words.
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