Usually means: Swapping sounds in words accidentally.
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  5. spoonerisms: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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  8. Spoonerisms: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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Definitions from Wiktionary (Spoonerism)

noun:  A play on words on a phrase in which the initial (usually consonantal) sounds of two or more of the main words are transposed.
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of spoonerism. [A play on words on a phrase in which the initial (usually consonantal) sounds of two or more of the main words are transposed.]
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