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Spoonerisms meaning
plural of spoonerism
Example sentences (3)
Dooley’s original compositions are of an extremely high calibre and two that stood out for me were a rhumba based on spoonerisms entitled “Keep on Running” and “Blessed”, which he wrote off-the-cuff while playing a gig at the Hyatt Hotel in 2017.
Poetry In his poem "Translation," Brian P. Cleary describes a boy named Alex who speaks in spoonerisms (like "shook a tower" instead of "took a shower").
While spoonerisms are commonly heard as slips of the tongue resulting from unintentionally getting one's words in a tangle, they can also be used intentionally as a play on words.