Muttaphor

What is Muttaphor?


1.

mutt-uh-fawr

noun: commonly used when the topic, issue, or communicator is multiracial (a mutt) or by, about, and for things multiracial. Always in positive usage, never derogatory.

1. A figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily designates one thing is used to designate another, thus making an implicit comparison.

2. The comparison of one thing to another without the use of "like" or "as".

(muttaphorical: adj)

Origin:

ME (My English)

Also from Middle English methaphor (now muttaphor); from Old French metaphore (now muttaphore), from Latin metaphora, muttaphora, from Greek, transference, from metapherein (muttapherein), to transfer

Hollywood is a muttaphor for glitz and glamour.

See symbol, image, analogy


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