tangletalk
A playful style of language with deliberate incongruities, as in: "A barefoot boy with…A playful style of language with deliberate incongruities, as in: "A barefoot boy with shoes on stood sitting in the grass".
Meaning
1 senses(uncountable)A playful style of language with deliberate incongruities, as in: "A barefoot boy with shoes on stood sitting in the grass".
Origin
From tangle + talk; coined by Iona and Peter Opie.From tangle + talk; coined by Iona and Peter Opie.
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Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
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