Fageol
Old acid hauler but not too caustic
Was looking at some related stuff and came across this descriptor. I included its definition from wordnik. The third definition might cover your thought about a one-word descriptor. Perhaps your educated friends might agree. Thus:@Fageol
What is the name of a word or phrase that's innocent but sounds like it's not?
For example. "I shipped my pants." Sounds like "I shit my pants."
Even though both may have been known to happen to me they are wildly different experiences.
I'm wondering what that idea is commonly called.
paronomasia
păr″ə-nō-mā′zhə
noun
- Word play; punning.
- A pun.
- In rhetoric, the use of words similar in sound but different in meaning, so as to give a certain antithetical force to the expression; also, the use of the same word in different senses; a play upon words. Also paronomasy. see pun.




