tangletalk

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A playful style of language with deliberate incongruities, as in: "A barefoot boy with shoes on stood sitting in the grass".

Word forms

tangletalk

Etymology

From tangle + talk; coined by Iona and Peter Opie.

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