Meaning of gadies and lentlemen | Babel Free

Definitions

Spoonerism of ladies and gentlemen

humorous, plural, plural-only

Examples

““Jack, behave,” ordered Mrs. Endicott, but Jack was enjoying himself too much to stop. “Ladies and gentlemen — or I should say, gadies and lentlemen — I will now give you an address in the style of my esteemed sister Jane Gale — or Gain Jail, I should say. […]”

“‘Gadies and lentlemen,’ said Gruesome and there was a sympathetic ripple of amusement.”

“"Gadies and lentlemen," Rob said, and groaned. "I practiced that speech for days, then stood up in front of five hundred people and and made a fool of myself with that spoonerism."”

“You make a start: ‘Good morning, Gadies and Lentlemen’. Your mouth is dry and you do not seem to be able to catch your breath.”

““Gadies and lentlemen, welcome to our first meeting of our first salon of the inaugural meeting of our group." He burped quietly.”

“We can listen day and night to this ectoplasmic ennui, strangely self-pitying and megalomaniacal at once, OR, like the inertia and entropy of this jurisprudential jalopy we call legal-eagle ratiocination command us to do, we can look to the matter of the matter: and the matter was had, gadies and lentlemen of our furry, slightly blurry, and gerry-rigged jury.”

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