spoonerize

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Spooner +‎ -ize

Verb[edit]

spoonerize (third-person singular simple present spoonerizes, present participle spoonerizing, simple past and past participle spoonerized)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To produce the kind of play on words called a spoonerism (from).