The use of words in a sense opposite to their proper meaning; as when a court of justice is called a court of vengeance.
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The use of words in a sense opposite to their proper meaning; as when a court of justice is called a court of vengeance.
Neologism Roget’s Thesaurus §563
N. neology, neologism, newfangled expression, # nonce expression, back-formation, caconym, barbarism, archaism, black letter, monkish latin, corruption, missaying, malapropism, antiphrasis, pun, paranomasia, play upon words, word play, double-entendre, palindrome, paragram, anagram, clinch, abuse of language, abuse of terms, dialect, brogue, idiom, accent, patois, provincialism, regionalism, localism, broken english, lingua franca, anglicism, briticism, gallicism, scotticism, hibernicism, americanism, gypsy lingo, romany, pidgin, pidgin english, pigeon english, volapuk, chinook, esperanto, hindustani, kitchen kaffir, dog latin, macaronics, gibberish, confusion of tongues, babel, babu english, chi-chi, figure of speech, byword, colloquialism, informal speech, informal language, substandard language, vernacular, vulgar language, obscene language, obscenity, vulgarity, jargon, technical terms, technicality, lingo, slang, cant, argot, st. gile's greek, thieves' latin, peddler's french, flash tongue, billingsgate, wall street slang, pseudology, pseudonym, mr. so-and-so, wha d'ye call 'em, whatchacallim, what's his name, thingummy, thingumbob, je ne sais quoi, neologist, coiner of words
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