mondegreen
/ˈmɒndəɡriːn//ˈmɑndəɡriːn/
词源说明
Coined by American journalist and editor Sylvia Wright in 1954 in Harper's Magazine from mishearing a line in the Scottish ballad The Bonnie Earl o' Moray: “They have slain the Earl o' Moray, / And laid him on the green”, the second line being misheard as, “And Lady Mondegreen”.
释义
名词noun
- 1(linguistics) A form of (possibly intentional) error arising from mishearing a spoken or sung phrase, possibly in a different language. [from 1954]
- 2rareA misunderstanding of a written or spoken phrase as a result of multiple definitions.