Yogiism
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Etymology edit
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Yogiism (plural Yogiisms)
- A malapropism of the kind characteristic of "Yogi" Berra (born 1925), American baseball player and manager.
- 1990, Bill James, The Baseball Book 1990:
- If anything means nothing in baseball (pardon the Yogiism), it's momentum...
- 1998, Eric Chaisson, The Hubble wars:
- A leading member of the wide-field camera team captured most of our feelings with a Yogiism: "I've never seen anyone muddy the waters so clearly."