folk-etymologize

English

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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