slip of the tongue

English

Etymology

Calque of Latin lapsus linguae.

Pronunciation

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Noun

slip of the tongue (plural slips of the tongue)

1. (idiomatic) A mistake in speech.

   It was an unfortunate slip of the tongue, and he did not intend it that way.

Synonyms

• lapsus linguae

Translations

mistake in speech

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: абмо́ўка f (abmóŭka), агаво́рка f (ahavórka)
• Bulgarian: грешка на езика (greška na ezika)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 口誤／口误 (kǒuwù), 失言 (zh) (shīyán), 漏嘴 (lòuzuǐ)

• Czech: přeřeknutí n
• Dutch: verspreking (nl) f
• Esperanto: langeraro
• Finnish: lipsahdus (fi), lapsus (fi)
• French: lapsus (fr) m
• German: Versprecher (de) m
• Greek: παραδρομή της γλώσσας f (paradromí tis glóssas), παραπραξία f (parapraxía)
• Hungarian: elszólás (hu), nyelvbotlás (hu)
• Icelandic: mismæli (is) n
• Ido: eroreto (io)
• Italian: lapsus (it) m, papera (it) f, strafalcione (it) m
• Japanese: 舌禍 (ja) (ぜっか, zekka), 言い損ない (いいそこない, iisokonai), 失言 (ja) (しつげん, shitsugen), 言い違い (いいちがい, iichigai)
• Korean: 말실수 (malsilsu)
• Latin: lāpsus linguae
• Mongolian: хэл хальтирах (xel xalʹtirax)
• Polish: przejęzyczenie (pl) n
• Portuguese: lapso (pt) m
• Russian: огово́рка (ru) f (ogovórka), обмо́лвка (ru) f (obmólvka)
• Slovak: prerieknutie n
• Spanish: lapsus linguae (es) m, lapsus (es) m
• Swedish: felsägning (sv) c
• Telugu: నోరుజారు (nōrujāru)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: dil sürçmesi (tr), sürçülisan (tr)
• Ukrainian: обмо́вка f (obmóvka)
• Vietnamese: (phép) nói nhịu, (phép) nói lịu
• Volapük: pök linega

See also

• Freudian slip
• parapraxis
• slip of the pen
• speako