mondegreen
nounEtymology
Coined by American journalist and editor Sylvia Wright in 1954 in Harper's Magazine from mishearing a line in the Scottish ballad The Bonnie Earl o' Moray: “They have slain the Earl o' Moray, / And laid him on the green”, the second line being misheard as, “And Lady Mondegreen”.
Definitions
A form of (possibly intentional) error arising from mishearing a spoken or sung phrase,…
A form of (possibly intentional) error arising from mishearing a spoken or sung phrase, possibly in a different language.
A misunderstanding of a written or spoken phrase as a result of multiple definitions.
The neighborhood
- neighbordaffynition
- neighborfolk etymology
- neighborHobson-Jobson
- neighborsoramimi
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for mondegreen. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA