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malapropism n. 文字误用 文字误用 malapropism n 1: the unintentional misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds similar [ synonym: { malapropism}, { malaprop}] malapropism \ mal" a* prop* ism\, n. [ From Mrs. Malaprop, a character in Sheridan' s drama, " The Rivals," who makes amusing blunders in her use of words. See { Malapropos}.] A grotesque misuse of a word; a word so used. [ 1913 Webster] 87 Moby Thesaurus words for " malapropism": Irish bull, abuse of terms, acrostic, alliteration, allusion, amphibologism, amphiboly, anacoluthon, anadiplosis, anagram, analogy, anaphora, anastrophe, antiphrasis, antithesis, antonomasia, apophasis, aporia, aposiopesis, apostrophe, barbarism, bull, calembour, catachresis, chiasmus, circumlocution, climax, conversion, corruption, ecphonesis, emphasis, equivocality, equivoque, exclamation, fluff, folk etymology, gemination, grammatical error, hypallage, hyperbaton, hyperbole, hypercorrection, hyperform, infelicity, inversion, irony, jeu de mots, litotes, logogram, logogriph, malaprop, marrowsky, meiosis, metagram, metaphor, metonymy, misconstruction, mispronunciation, missaying, misusage, onomatopoeia, oxymoron, palindrome, paregmenon, parenthesis, paronomasia, periphrasis, personification, play on words, pleonasm, preterition, prolepsis, pun, punning, regression, repetition, sarcasm, simile, similitude, solecism, spoonerism, syllepsis, symploce, synecdoche, ungrammaticism, wordplay, zeugma
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