Home                    Word of the Week Links for Word Lovers Crossword Solver AllWords Forums    Help                       Bookstore             Advertise              Copyrights            Privacy                  AllWords Search Box Contact Us

English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search Your Query of 'eggcorn' Resulted in 1 Matches Displaying Items 1 through 1 Definitions eggcorn noun  (linguistics) An idiosyncratic but semantically motivated substitution of a word or phrase for a word or words that sound identical, or nearly so, at least in the dialect the speaker uses. deep-seeded instead of deep-seated deformation of character instead of defamation of character for all intensive purposes instead of for all intents and purposes free reign instead of free rein Etymology: The subject of eggcorns was first introduced on the Internet on September 23, 2003 by Mark Liberman on the website Language Log. He discussed the case of a woman who substitutes the phrase egg corn for the word acorn. Later on, the word egg corn or eggcorn (which in itself is an eggcorn) was suggested by Geoffrey K. Pullum to name such linguistic peculiarities.        Find:   Words Starting With:   Words Ending With:   Words Containing:   Words That Match:    Translate Into:    Dutch   French   German    Italian   Spanish Browse the Dictionary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Dictionary content provided from Wiktionary.org under the GNU Free Documentation License Allwords Copyright 1998-2008 Allsites LLC. All rights reserved.