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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
pun
n 1: a humorous play on words; "I do it for the pun of it"; "his
constant punning irritated her" [syn: pun, punning,
wordplay, paronomasia]
v 1: make a play on words; "Japanese like to pun--their language
is well suited to punning"
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Pun \Pun\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Punned; p. pr. & vb. n.
Punning.]
To make puns, or a pun; to use a word in a double sense,
especially when the contrast of ideas is ludicrous; to play
upon words; to quibble. --Dryden.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Pun \Pun\, v. t.
To persuade or affect by a pun. --Addison.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Pun \Pun\, v. t. [See Pound to beat.]
To pound. [Obs.]
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He would pun thee into shivers with his fist. --Shak.
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5. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Pun \Pun\, n. [Cf. Pun to pound, Pound to beat.]
A play on words which have the same sound but different
meanings; an expression in which two different applications
of a word present an odd or ludicrous idea; a kind of quibble
or equivocation. --Addison.
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A better put on this word was made on the Beggar's
Opera, which, it was said, made Gay rich, and Rich gay.
--Walpole.
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Thesaurus Results for Pun:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
abuse of terms, acrostic, alliterate, alliteration, ambiguity, amphibologism, amphibology, amphiboly, anagram, assonance, assonate, be merry with, calembour, chime, clink, corruption, counterword, crack a joke, crack wise, double entendre, equivocal, equivocality, equivocation, equivoque, fleer at, fun, gibe at, jape, jest, jeu de mots, jingle, joke, josh, kid, kid around, logogram, logogriph, make a funny, make fun, make fun of, malapropism, metagram, missaying, mock, near rhyme, palindrome, paronomasia, play on words, poke fun at, polysemant, portmanteau word, punning, quip, rhyme, ridicule, scintillate, scoff at, slant rhyme, sparkle, spoonerism, squinting construction, utter a mot, weasel word, wisecrack, wordplay |
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Common Misspellings > |
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