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A malapropism is a funny slip where you reach for a word and come out with another that sounds like it but means something quite different — “for all intensive purposes” instead of “intents and purposes,” or a character saying “ him from your memory” when they mean “obliterate.” The laugh comes from the near-miss: the wrong word is not nonsense, just wildly the wrong tool. English took the name from Mrs Malaprop, a comic character in Sheridan’s play The Rivals (1775), who kept doing exactly this. of that time often gave characters names that hinted at their fault; Sheridan probably built Malaprop from malapropos, “not to the point,” from French mal à propos. The word is a little ; teachers and use it. A plain wrong word with no sound-alikeness is just a mistake, not a malapropism. Children and tired adults make them; so do people showing off a long word they have not quite got hold of.
近音誤用（用了聽起來像、意思卻完全不對的詞，往往很好笑）
組成From Mrs Malaprop, a character in Sheridan’s The Rivals (1775), plus -ism. The name was probably fashioned from malapropos (“inappropriate”), from French mal à propos.
同家族的字
- malaproposthe older word meaning “not to the point,” from which the character’s name was probably made
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
malapropismnoun/ˈmæləpɹɒpˌɪzəm/
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The blundering use of an absurdly inappropriate word or expression in place of a similar-sounding one.
- The script employed malapropism to great effect.
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An instance of such use.
- The translator matched every malapropism in the original with one from his own language.
- The humor comes from all the malapropisms.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。