pig Latin
See also: Pig Latin
English
Etymology
"Latin" comes from the language of Latin (though it is not linguistically related; that is an intentional misnomer), but the origin of "pig" is unknown.
Noun
- A type of wordplay in which (English) words are altered by moving the leading phonetic of a word to the end and appending -ay [eɪ̯], except when the word begins with a vowel, in which case "-way" [weɪ̯] is suffixed with no leading phonetic change.
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"please be quiet or I'll cry" becomes "ease-play e-bay iet-quay or-way I'll-way y-cray" |
Synonyms
Hypernyms
Translations
wordplay
See also
- apothecary's Latin
- bog Latin
- cod Latin
- hog Latin
- dog Latin
- law Latin
- macaronic Latin
- mock Latin
- Canis Latinicus
- Category: English Pig Latin terms
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