paronym

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  1. noun A paronymous word.

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  • My listings like "looking to get tarred and pleasured" and "Searching for a heroine to do the paronym of this sentence's lexical subject" kept getting flagged. —  Gawker
 

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  1. Greek parōnumon, from neuter sing. of parōnumos, derivative; see paronymous.

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  1. Also paronyme; from F. paronyme, from Greek παρώνυμος, derivative: see paronymous.
 

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/ˈpærənɪm/
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