spooneristically
advEtymology From spooneristic + -ally.
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In a spooneristic manner.
- People are not, and do not want to be, wholly grasshoppers or wholly ants, but a combination of the two; people are and want to be (if you will forgive a regrettably vulgar but spooneristically inevitable construction) ass-hoppers or grants. We can, of course, all cease to work, but if we do then we cannot play for long either, for we will shortly die.'1978, Bernard Suits, The Grasshopper: Games, Life, and Utopia, Toronto; Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, page 9:
- Ultimately, the fanciful but probably untrue witch and crap etymologies should simply be allowed to spooneristically flutter by.2006, William Brohaugh, Unfortunate English: The Gloomy Truth Behind the Words You Use, Cincinnati, Ohio: Writer's Digest Books, page 153:
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- Among horses that have run here, and in other counties, are the gelding (obviously) Noble Locks, Roger the Butler, Shiitake. Titsan, My Aunt Fanny and Katchit. Amazingly, famous trainer Julie Cecil had a horse spooneristically named Mary Hinge which won five races, picking up over £25,000 in prize money.2009, Simon Rose, Steve Caplin, Complete and Utter Zebu, Old Street Publishing, page 211: