folk-etymologize (English, verb)
expansion: folk-etymologize (third-person singular simple present folk-etymologizes, present participle folk-etymologizing, simple past and past participle folk-etymologized)
Senses:
glosses: To introduce or develop a folk etymology.
tags: intransitive
glosses: To explain the etymology of a word as folk etymology.
tags: transitive
Forms:
form: folk-etymologizes
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: folk-etymologizing
tags: participle
present
form: folk-etymologized
tags: participle
past
form: folk-etymologized
tags: past
form: folk etymologize
tags: alternative