Associations to the word «Spoonerism»
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Wiktionary
SPOONERISM, noun. A play on words on a phrase in which the initial (usually consonantal) sounds of two or more of the main words are transposed.
Dictionary definition
SPOONERISM, noun. Transposition of initial consonants in a pair of words.
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.