Phrop
A phrop is an attempted
Sir Arnold Lunn
. It has not entered common use.
See also
- Antiphrasis
- Autantonym
- Euphemism
References
- Geoffrey T. Hellman, The Talk of the Town, "Phrop Collector", The New Yorker, 20 December 1952, p. 25 [1]
- Arnold Henry Moore Lunn, "Memory to memory", Hollis & Carter, 1956, p. 12
- Philip Howard, "The State of the Language", Penguin Books, 1984, ISBN 0-14-008086-4, pp. 115–117
- "Modern manners"", The Times, 13 November 2006 [2]