malapropism

IPA(Pronunciation)

uncountable countable

Japanese Meaning

似た音を持つ語と混同し、不適切な語を用いる言い間違い。または、そのような言い間違いの例。

Her frequent malapropism during the debate made the audience laugh, even though she meant well.

討論中に彼女が頻繁にした滑稽な言葉の誤用は聴衆を笑わせたが、彼女に悪意はなかった。

Sense（1）

(uncountable) The blundering use of an absurdly inappropriate word or expression in place of a similar-sounding one.

The script employed malapropism to great effect.

Sense（2）

(countable) An instance of this; malaprop.

The translator matched every malapropism in the original with one from his own language.

malapropisms

（ plural ）