Definitions for punpʌn
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
punpʌn(n.; v.)punned, pun•ning.
(n.)the humorous use of a word or phrase so as to emphasize or suggest its different meanings or applications, or the use of words that are alike or nearly alike in sound but different in meaning; a play on words.
Category: Rhetoric
a word or phrase used in this way.
Category: Rhetoric
(v.i.)to make puns.
Category: Rhetoric
Origin of pun:
1655–65; perh. identical with pun, var., now dial., of pound1, i.e., to mistreat (words)
Princeton's WordNet
pun, punning, wordplay, paronomasia(verb)
a humorous play on words
"I do it for the pun of it"; "his constant punning irritated her"
pun(verb)
make a play on words
"Japanese like to pun--their language is well suited to punning"
Kernerman English Learner's Dictionary
pun(noun)ʌn
a word or phrase that can be understood in two ways
Wiktionary
pun(Noun)
A joke or type of wordplay in which similar senses or sounds of two words or phrases, or different senses of the same word, are deliberately confused.
pun(Verb)
To tell a pun, to make a play on words.
We punned about the topic until all around us groaned.
Webster Dictionary
Pun(verb)
to pound
Pun(noun)
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
Pun(verb)
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
Pun(verb)
to persuade or affect by a pun
Translations for pun
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary
pun(noun)
a type of joke in which words are used that have a similar sound, but a different meaning
One example of a pun would be `A pun is a punishable offence'.
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