Spoonerisms

Toasting Queen Victoria at dinner, Spooner said, "Give three cheers for our queer old dean."

He greeted a group of farmers as "noble tons of soil."

he cautioned young missionaries against having "a half-warmed fish in their hearts."

He described Cambridge in the winter as "a bloody meek place."

Once Spooner berated a student for "fighting a liar in the quadrangle."

"You have hissed all my mystery lectures," he reportedly said.

"In fact, you have tasted two whole worms and you must leave Oxford this afternoon by the next town drain."

"Courage to blow the bears of life."

"Must you stay, can't you go?"

"a well-boiled icicle" (bicycle)

"fresh veal and new zigor"