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missay — missayer, n. /mis say /, v., missaid, missaying. v.t. 1. to say or speak ill of; vilify; slander. 2. to say wrongly. v.i. 3. to speak wrongly or incorrectly. [1175 1225; ME misseyen. See MIS 1, SAY1] * * * … Universalium
acrostic — Synonyms and related words: abuse of terms, acronym, amphibologism, amphiboly, anagram, avyayibhava, back formation, calembour, clipped word, compound, conjugate, construction, corruption, dvandva, dvigu, endocentric compound, equivocality,… … Moby Thesaurus
anagram — Synonyms and related words: abuse of terms, acrostic, amphibologism, amphiboly, calembour, charade, conundrum, corruption, equivocality, equivoque, jeu de mots, logogram, logogriph, malapropism, metagram, missaying, palindrome, paronomasia, play… … Moby Thesaurus
barbarism — Synonyms and related words: Gothicism, Irish bull, Neanderthalism, age of ignorance, animality, antiphrasis, bad taste, barbarity, barbarousness, benightedness, benightment, bestiality, bombasticness, brutality, brutishness, cacology, cacophony,… … Moby Thesaurus
bull — Synonyms and related words: Brahman, Dogberry, Indian buffalo, Irish bull, John Law, Pastoral Epistle, aerogram, air letter, airgraph, anacoluthon, andric, appointment, assault, aurochs, babble, balderdash, balls, baloney, bear, bear the market,… … Moby Thesaurus
corruption — Synonyms and related words: abandon, abandonment, abjection, abomination, abuse of terms, acrostic, adulteration, alienation, amphibologism, amphiboly, anagram, antiphrasis, atrocity, bad, bane, barbarism, bastardizing, befouling, befoulment,… … Moby Thesaurus
fluff — Synonyms and related words: Irish bull, aerate, air, anacoluthon, bad job, ball up, bevue, bloomer, blooper, blow, blubber, blunder, bobble, boggle, bollix, bonehead play, boner, boo boo, boot, botch, breeze, bubble, bull, bungle, butter,… … Moby Thesaurus
infelicity — Synonyms and related words: Gothicism, abnormality, aching heart, agony, agony of mind, anguish, anomaly, antiphrasis, bad taste, bale, barbarism, barbarousness, bitterness, bleeding heart, bombasticness, broken heart, cacology, cacophony,… … Moby Thesaurus
logogram — Synonyms and related words: abuse of terms, acrostic, allegory, alphabet, amphibologism, amphiboly, anagram, arrowhead, art, blueprint, calembour, character, charactering, characterization, charactery, chart, choreography, cipher, conventional… … Moby Thesaurus
malapropism — Synonyms and related words: Irish bull, abuse of terms, acrostic, alliteration, allusion, amphibologism, amphiboly, anacoluthon, anadiplosis, anagram, analogy, anaphora, anastrophe, antiphrasis, antithesis, antonomasia, apophasis, aporia,… … Moby Thesaurus
