malapropism
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Ferrino the Portuguese malapropist and cod romantic is a simpler gag, but raucously funny.
From The Guardian • Jun. 21, 2012
And there Teddy ran foul of two "overripe virgins," bleached Miss Blame and malapropist Miss Birkenhead, who once spent six months in Paris, calls her Paris sugar daddy her faux pa.
From Time Magazine Archive
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