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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A malapropism.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Malapropos.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Characterized by the use of malapropisms.
  2. n. A malapropism.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the unintentional misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds similar

Etymologies

  1. After Mrs. Malaprop, a character in The Rivals, a play by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, from malapropos.

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‘malaprop’ has been looked up 1065 times, loved by 2 people, added to 17 lists, and has a Scrabble score of 14.