malaprop

Well, Howard Waldrop is the greatest malaprop short story writer of our time.

Did You Ever Have One of Those Ideas? at SF Novelists 2010

The word “leader” is supposed to be a superlative, and not a malaprop or a sick joke.

So. Eric Massa is retiring. Eric. Massa. | RedState 2010

There she is again, beaming in front of the cameras last week, the malaprop-spouting Minnesota Republican who led thousands of angry tea-bag marchers on the steps of the nation's Capitol to protest health care reform.

Mario Ruiz: Michele Bachmann and David Koch: Strange Bedfellows 2010

Messina says, I found the inspiration for the book in chapter eleven, when malaprop-prone Amy calls her Aunt March ‘a regular samphire.’

Monster Mashups « educating alice 2010

Messina says, I found the inspiration for the book in chapter eleven, when malaprop-prone Amy calls her Aunt March ‘a regular samphire.’

2010 March 19 « educating alice 2010

But perhaps the prize for malaprop words of the year should go to Texas congressman and oil industry beneficiary Joe Barton, who apologized to BP for the compensation fund as a shakedown.

Politicians Suffering From 'Foot In Mouth' Disease 2010

Eagerly awaiting the Allen malaprop moment: "A rose between a towelhead and a dyke" perhaps?

Thompson Co-Chairs Include George Allen ��� And Dick Cheney's Daughter 2009

A malaprop (according to my trusty keyboard-worn Apple Dictionary Version 2.0.2) is a noun.

Steven Weber: Dick Cheney: We Done Him Wrong 2009

"Intensive purposes", of course a malaprop as used here, nevertheless makes sense in a Yogi Berra kind of way: I mean could it be that the reason Obamessiah has no sense of humor is that his purposes are so intensive?

The Wit and Humor of Barack Obama. Ann Althouse 2008

Of course, I got “when ducks cry”, but I also thought that “malaprop” might be “what it sounds like when ducks cry”.

malaprop | clusterflock 2008