Slip Of The Tongue

Definition: Slip Of The Tongue

Slip Of The Tongue

Noun

1. An accidental and usually trivial mistake in speaking.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Error

Mistake; miss, fault, blunder, quiproquo, cross purposes, oversight, misprint, erratum, corrigendum, slip, blot, flaw, loose thread; trip, stumble; (failure); botchery; (want of skill); slip of the tongue, slip of the lip, Freudian slip; slip of the pen; lapsus linguae, clerical error; bull; (absurdity); haplography.

Solecism

Noun: solecism; bad grammar, false grammar, faulty grammar; slip of the pen, slip of the tongue; lapsus linguae; slipslop; bull; barbarism, impropriety.

Stammering

Brogue; slip of the tongue, lapsus linouae.

Crosswords: Slip Of The Tongue

Slip of the Tongue (1970)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "slip of the tongue": a slip of the tongue ♦ make a slip of the tongue. Additional references.

Albanian

gabim në të shprehur, gabim në të folur. (various references)

Arabic 

‏زلة لسان, ‏إنزلق بلسانه في قول كذا. (various references)

Bulgarian 

грешка на езика. (various references)

Czech

přeřeknutí. (various references)

Finnish

erehtyä sanomaan (make a slip of the tongue). (various references)

French

lapsus de langue, lapsus (slip, slip of the pen, slip up). (various references)

German

sprechfehler, versprecher (slip (of the tongue)). (various references)

Hebrew 

פליטת פ�" (slip up), אש�'ר�" (habit, routine). (various references)

Hungarian

nyelvbotlás (a slip of the tongue, bloomer, blooper, break, lapse of the tongue, trip). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

言葉尻 (word ending). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

�"とばじり (word ending). (various references)

Pig Latin

ipslay ofay ethay onguetay

Portuguese

ponta da língua (a slip of the tongue). (various references)

Romanian

lapsus linguae (lapse of the tongue). (various references)

Russian 

оговорка (blooper, clause, lapsus linguae, limitation, reservation, reserve), обмолвка. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

omaknuo mu se jezik. (various references)

Spanish

lapsus linguae (a slip of the tongue). (various references)

Swedish

felsägning (blooper, slink of the tongue). (various references)

Turkish

gaf (atrocity, bloomer, blunder, Boner, break, bull, clanger, contretemps, faux pas, flub, gaff, gaffe, goof, howler, slip, slip up), dil sürçmesi (freudian slip). (various references)

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-5 letters: ethologies, ethologist, fetologies, fetologist, footlights, gluttonies, lengthiest, lithopones, oenophiles, outfeeling, penologies, penologist, phlogiston, phonolites, pigeonhole, pilothouse, postflight, silhouette, telephotos, theogonies, theologies, theologise, theologues, upshooting.