spoonerism

名词 n.
中文释义
发音 spo͞oʹ-nər-ĭʹ-zəm

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A play on words on a phrase in which the initial (usually consonantal) sounds of two or more of the main words are transposed. rhetoric
    — 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 fellow at New College for almost twenty years. By 1892, his reputation for absentmindedness was well known; students came to New College expecting to hear a spoonerism.

词形变化

spoonerisms plural Spoonerism alternative

词源

From Spooner + -ism, named after Oxford don Reverend W. A. Spooner (1844–1930), who is supposed to have habitually made such slip-ups.
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