OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 16441

spoonerism

/ˈspuː.nəɹˌɪ.zəm/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
espunerismo • espunerismos • retruécano
A play on words on a phrase in which the initial (usually consonantal) sounds of two or more of the main words are transposed.
Undergraduates at Oxford University were playfully fond of Spooner, whom they nicknamed "the Spoo". They also coined the term "spoonerism" around 1885, after Spooner had been a fel…
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