Example sentences for: spoonerisms

How can you use “spoonerisms” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Making up spoonerisms is a pleasant form of addiction.

  • ” Obscene spoonerisms represent the pinnacle of spooner-type wit (or is that wooner-type spit?

  • Visual spoonerisms appear to be correct in written form, but transposition produces the wrong sound.

  • The best spoonerisms produce an element of humor or irony, as this one does.

  • I missed two classic spoonerisms in XVIII, 4: the one that spells the difference between a game cock and a shysters lawyer (a game cock clucks defiance), and the difference between a lady in the bath and a lady in the church (the latter has a hope in her soul).


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