tangletalk

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

tangle +‎ talk; coined by Iona and Peter Opie.

Noun[edit]

tangletalk (uncountable)

  1. A playful style of language with deliberate incongruities, as in: "A barefoot boy with shoes on stood sitting in the grass".