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malapropping

malapropping is the present participle and gerund of malaprop.

Meaning of malaprop

Verb

malaprop (third-person singular simple present malaprops, present participle malapropping, simple past and past participle malapropped)

  1. To use a malapropism.

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Questions about malapropping

What is malapropping the present participle and gerund of?
Malapropping is the present participle and gerund of malaprop.

Words near malapropping in the dictionary

  1. malapropists
  2. malapropoism
  3. malapropoisms
  4. malapropos
  5. malapropped
  6. malapropping
  7. malaprops
  8. malapterurid
  9. malapterurids
  10. malar
  11. malar bone

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Adapted from Wiktionary: malapropping (page history and authors); malaprop (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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