| Front | mondegreen \MON-di-green\ |
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| Back | noun A word or phrase resulting from mishearing a word or phrase. [Coined by author Sylvia Wright when she misinterpreted the line "laid him on the green" as "Lady Mondegreen" in the Scottish ballad "The Bonny Earl of Murray". Earliest documented use: 1954.] "Since I live in Thailand, the most meaningful mondegreen for me was my own mishearing of a line from The Jam's Eton Rifles. Instead of the correct 'What chance do you have against a tie and a crest?', for years I heard 'What chance do you have against a Thai in a dress?'" - Richard Watson Todd; Much Ado about English; Nicholas Brealey Publishing; May 1, 2007. |
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