malaprop

Have you heard the speculation, The rumor now in circulation: Perry runs with Newt this Fall Malaprop meets know-it-all.

Jephson is rather bitten by a taste for all that “teleopathy” business, as the old Malaprop calls it.

Not only Mrs. Malaprop, but also Sir Anthony, form an entirely wrong estimate of themselves.

A pronoun is a substitute, or (as we once heard a lady of the Malaprop family say), a subterfuge for a noun.