folk-etymologize

English

Alternative forms
  • folk etymologize

Verb

folk-etymologize (third-person singular simple present folk-etymologizes, present participle folk-etymologizing, simple past and past participle folk-etymologized)

  1. (intransitive) To introduce or develop a folk etymology.
  2. (transitive) To explain the etymology of a word as folk etymology.
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