Saturday, February 26, 2011

 

Phrop

Michael Quinion, World Wide Words (February 26, 2011), discusses the word phrop, coined by Sir Arnold Lunn and popularized by Philip Howard, from "phrase + opposite," i.e. a phrase that means the opposite of its ostensible meaning, thus a variety of auto-antonym.

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# posted by Michael Gilleland @ 5:08 AM


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