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tangletalk

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

Noun

tangletalk (uncountable)

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

Origin of tangletalk

From tangle + talk; coined by Iona and Peter Opie.

Questions about tangletalk

What does tangletalk mean?
Tangletalk means a playful style of language with deliberate incongruities, as in: "A barefoot boy with shoes on stood sitting in the grass".
What part of speech is tangletalk?
Tangletalk is a noun.

Words near tangletalk in the dictionary

  1. tangleroot
  2. tanglers
  3. tangles
  4. tanglesome
  5. tangless
  6. tangletalk
  7. Tanglewood
  8. tanglier
  9. tangliest
  10. tangling
  11. tanglingly

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