"spoonerize" meaning in English

See spoonerize in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: spoonerizes [present, singular, third-person], spoonerizing [participle, present], spoonerized [participle, past], spoonerized [past]
Etymology: From Spooner + -ize. Etymology templates: {{suf|en|Spooner|ize}} Spooner + -ize Head templates: {{en-verb}} spoonerize (third-person singular simple present spoonerizes, present participle spoonerizing, simple past and past participle spoonerized)
  1. (ambitransitive) To produce the kind of play on words called a spoonerism (from). Tags: ambitransitive

Inflected forms

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