Malapropism

malapropism English Noun en malapropism. en w:Andrew Lang The Comedies of Shakespeare. With Illustrations by E. A. Abbey, and Comments by Andrew Lang. II. The Merchant of Venice. Harper’s New Monthly Magazine LXXX CCCCLXXIX New York, N.Y. Harper & Brothers,Publishers, 327 to 335 Pearl Street, Franklin Square. April 1890 664 https://archive.org/details/harpersnew80various/page/664/mode/1up 1 0361-8277 M. Jules Lemaître has reproached Shakespeare for his love of Malapropisms. Those of Dogberry and many of his other low comedy parts are highly diverting buffoonery. At Timothy’s 12 That old wound to his pride and self-esteem was not yet closed. He had come thinking he could talk of it, even wanting to talk of his fettered condition, and—behold! he was shrinking away from this reminder by Aunt Juley, renowned for her Malapropisms. en w:Frank Swinnerton Charladies Tokefield Papers, Old and New new and enlarged London w:Hamish Hamilton 1949 part III 165 https://archive.org/details/TokefieldPapers/page/n179/mode/1up 4177323 But nobody will ever know the private history of a char. They keep nearly all their secrets to themselves. For this reason I am sure that, whatever novelists and dramatists pretend, they are not natural chatterboxes. Not all have black eyes or drunken husbands who occasionally arrive for a private quarrel or, in times of hardship for the hero, become comic brokers’ men. Their Malapropisms are few. They are frequently sturdy, silent, careful, and as dignified as wealthy aunts, who, by the way, are also with as little reason made ridiculous in some books and plays.