noun. A misunderstood or misstated idiom or saying. Usually an accidental combining of two sayings.
comes from the word mondegreen and the word blue (to make an error)
Examples of a mondeblue:
Off like a bucket of prawns in a sock (a cross between off like a bucket of prawns in the sun/off like a frog in a sock)
A chip off the old shoulder (a cross between a chip off the old block/a chip on your shoulder)
Missed the bandwagon (a cross between missed the boat/jump on the bandwagon)
The phenomenon of someone looking a term up when they don’t know what it means to make it look like they are of higher intelligence than they actually are.
Person 1: “You will fall victim to the Mundubu effect in 30 seconds.”
Oblivious Person: *looks up Mundubu effect in order to act like they’re smarter than they actually are*