OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 43375

lapsus linguae

/ˌlæpsəs ˈlɪŋɡwiː/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
lapsus línguae
An inadvertent remark; slip of the tongue.
... a poor woman who owed one thousand piastres—about £30—rushed and seized hold of the coffin, but instead of saying, "God bless the Bey," she, by an unfortunate lapsus linguæ, ex…
a'''1789, Rev. Mr. Bramston, "The Art of Politics, in Imitation of Horace’s Art of Poetry", Epistle X in John Bell (ed.), Classical Arrangement of Fugitive Poetry, Volume V, John B…
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