Answer: MALAPROP
MALAPROP is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted over 20 times. There are no related answers. Try defining MALAPROP with Google.
Referring crossword puzzle clues
- Misused word
- Language blooper
- Word mix-up
- Word mangler
- Sheridan's Mrs. ___
- Sheridan's Mrs.
- Sheridan's misspeaking Mrs.
- Noted word scrambler
- Mrs. ___ (eponymous butcherer of language from "The Rivals")
- Mrs. ___ (character in a 1775 play known for poor but amusing word choice)
- Linguistic lapse
- Linguistic fumbler
- In fiction, diction was her affliction
- Fictional Mrs.
- Female character in The Rivals who uses words wrongly
- Famous word butcher
- Famous Mrs.
- Family name in Sheridan's "The Rivals"
- Butcherer of words
- Bush utterance, often
- "Dance a flamingo," e.g.
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Recent usage in crossword puzzles:
- WSJ Daily - Aug. 9, 2021
- New York Times - Jan. 25, 2019
- WSJ Daily - May 25, 2018
- The Guardian Quick - Sept. 12, 2017
- Washington Post Sunday Magazine - Aug. 6, 2017
- Sheffer - Aug. 16, 2016
- Washington Post - March 14, 2015
- Sheffer - Feb. 17, 2015
- Sheffer - Jan. 22, 2015
- Sheffer - April 28, 2014
- I Swear Crossword - May 7, 2010
- Inkwell - April 25, 2008
- AV Club - Feb. 13, 2008
- LA Times Sunday Calendar - June 17, 2007
- New York Times - Oct. 24, 1999
- New York Times - Nov. 7, 1996
- New York Times - Feb. 22, 1991
- New York Times - May 28, 1981
- New York Times - Aug. 31, 1974
- New York Times - Aug. 25, 1973
