English Explanatory Dictionary

paronymic attraction

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The phenomenon of similar-sounding native words (paronyms) affecting the development of loan words.

Word forms

paronymic attraction

Related words

mishearing eggcorn folk etymology reanalysis rebracketing catachresis malapropism misconstruction mondegreen Hobson-Jobson phono-semantic matching
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