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This article is about the contradiction in terms. For the punk band, see Oxymoron (band).
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Please help improve this article by adding reliable references. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (March 2009)Look up oxymoron in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.An oxymoron (plural oxymora (greek plural) or, more often, oxymorons)("sharply dull" in Greek) is a figure of speech that combines two normally contradictory terms. They appear in a range of contexts, from inadvertent errors such as extremely average, to deliberate puns like same difference, to literary oxymorons that have been carefully crafted to reveal a paradox.
The most common form of oxymoron involves an adjective-noun combination. For example, the following line from Tennyson's Idylls of the King contains two oxymorons:
"And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true."
"nude strippers"
Less often seen is noun-verb combinations such as the line
Dude, I said strippers, as in strip clubs, they are 18 or at least have a fake ID, jeffcat is in the 10 or below catagory. Not cool man, not cool, I may have to beat you with your own cat if I ever see you.
Dude, I said strippers, as in strip clubs, they are 18 or at least have a fake ID, jeffcat is in the 10 or below catagory. Not cool man, not cool, I may have to beat you with your own cat if I ever see you.
I had a legal secretary whose 15 year old ran away. She found her in a strip club in Metairie. She told me "She was grabbing a pole!" I knew I'd have to call the legal temp service when I answered "I bet she was grabbing a whole bunch of poles"