Definition
a. Used in or suitable to spoken language or to writing that imitates speech; conversational. b. Informal in style of expression.
Colloquial
A word formed from the initial letters of a name or by combining initial letters or parts of a series or words.
Acronym
"Tons of soil" instead of "sons of toil"
Spoonerism
Sticking a stamp to a letter.
Affix
(noun)a. A word element, such as a prefix or suffix, that is attached to a base, stem or root. b. Something that is attached, joined or added. (verb) a. To secure (an object) to another; attach. b. To place at the end
(noun) a. The invention of new words. b. An invented word or phrase. c. The process of making coins
Coinage
A man, a plan, a canal, Panama
Palindrome
The way you would talk to your friends.
Colloquial
A word, phrase, or sentence that reads the same backwards and forwards.
Palindrome
The formation or use of a word that imitates or resembles what it stands for.
Onomatopoeia
"polo bear" instead of "polar bear"
Malapropism
Boing! Buzz! Boom!
Onomatopoeia
An Accidental but humorous distortion of words in a phrase formed by interchanging the initial sounds.
Spoonerism
A word formed by merging the sounds and meanings of two different words; blend
Portmanteau word
WAC for Women's Army Corps.
Acronym
hungry as a bear.
Simile
The use of a word sounding somewhat like the one intended but humorously wrong in the context.
Malapropism
A figure of speech in which two essentially unlike things are compared, often in a phrase introduced by "like" or "as"
The word "hobbit" which J. R. R. Tolkien invented.
Coinage
Frenemy
Portmanteau word