malapropism

Etymology
From the name of Mrs. Malaprop, a character in the play The Rivals (1775) by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. As dramatic characters in English comic plays of this time often had allusive names, it is likely that Sheridan fashioned the name from, from. Mrs. Malaprop is perhaps the best-known example of a familiar comedic character archetype who unintentionally substitutes inappropriate but like-sounding words that take on a ludicrous meaning when used incorrectly.

Noun

 * 1)  The blundering use of an absurdly inappropriate word or expression in place of a similar-sounding one.
 * 2)  An instance of this; malaprop.
 * 1)  An instance of this; malaprop.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: malapropismi
 * French:, ,
 * Hungarian: paronimák felcserélése, paronimák összekeverése
 * Irish: mífheilteachas
 * Japanese:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:, malapropîzm
 * Manx: neuchooieid focklagh
 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: ain-eirmseachd
 * Spanish:, malapropismo,
 * Tibetan: ཚིག་བེད་སྤྱོད་བྱེད་སྟངས་ནོར་བ