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Mrs. Malaprop
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Mrs. Malaprop

 
pronunciation:
mI sihz mae l prap
part of speech: noun
definition: in the eighteenth-century play The Rivals by Richard Sheridan, a character who makes hilarious blunders in her use of language. (Cf. malapropism.)