noun Download 🔗Share An idiosyncratic but semantically motivated substitution of a word or phrase for a word or words that sound identical, or nearly so, at least in the dialect the speaker uses. Examples : "My daughter's confusion of "old-timers' disease" for "Alzheimer's disease" is a classic example of an eggcorn. " language linguistics word communication phonetics Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading