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ˈspoonerism
[f. the name of the Rev. W. A. Spooner (b. 1844).]
An accidental transposition of the initial sounds, or other parts, of two or more words.
Known in colloquial use in Oxford from about 1885.
1900Globe 5 Feb., To one unacquainted with technical terms it sounds as if the speaker were guilty of a spoonerism. 1923[see marrowsky b]. 1976Oxford Diocesan Mag. July 15/1, I am not going to put on any weight until I'm fifty, when I shall allow myself to become matronly, ready to be a follower of ‘soda and gobbly matrons’, as enjoined by the marriage service. (A good Spoonerism that, created quite involuntarily by my mother some years ago.)
Hence Spooneˈrismus [nonce mock-German], a spoonerism; ˈspoonerize v. trans., to alter (a word or phrase) by a spoonerism; ˈspoonerized ppl. a.
1923A. Huxley Antic Hay xx. 284 When pain and anguish wring the brow, an interesting mangle thou, as we used to say in the good old days when the pun and the Spoonerismus were in fashion. 1927Daily Express 22 July 7 Zoojolical Gardens... But why not let the misprint stick? The Zoo gardens are ‘jolical’ gardens, and probably the London Zoological Society would have no objection to them being spoonerised as such. 1972D. W. Bahlman in E. W. Hamilton Diary p. xxv, The Herbert family, Hamilton, and other friends..called themselves the Bilton Waggers, a Spoonerized version of Wilton Baggers. 1974V. Nabokov Look at Harlequins (1975) ii. v. 101 Only a lunatic would have chosen a pair of third-rate publicists to write about—spoonerizing their names in addition! |