pun
89
4.8
- noun
- /pʌn/
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juego de palabras
- My favorite pun is, 'Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.'
- pun intended
- visual pun
- pun on the name
Your kind of thing is doing like dad jokes and like puns and stuff like that.
- Your kind of thing is doing like dad jokes and like puns and stuff like that.
- To me, that's such a, pardon the pun, cry for help.
- Did you like that pun, Marcus?
- Let's face it, pun intended, if you sleep well.
- He's going to come fast, No pun intended, all right?
- And it was only a seed of an idea, pun intended, then.
- Anyways, these hands down, no pun intended, the best.
- All right, This has been incredibly no pun illuminating.
- That was totally news to me, pun intended.
- Having a marketable, pun intended, degree is a great investment kids.
- But any effective, compelling lie, it has a little seed, no pun intended, of truth in it.
Examples
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To me, that's such a, pardon the pun, cry for help.
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My dad believed that the pun was the lowest form of humor.
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Did you like that pun, Marcus?
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The title of the article was "Swans in Love," a pun I did not understand then.
Fiction book (1990) -
"My Eye," he called his wife, smiling at the gentle pun on her name, which was Inez.
Fiction book (1993) -
So I wasn't super prepared, so I wrote some puns based on movies people talk about.
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I groaned dutifully at the pun, so that he would know I got it.
Fiction book (1995) -
There was an obvious bad pun there at which The Woman Who Hates Puns would have groaned.
Fiction book (1997) -
When he told that pun, everyone in the room burst out laughing.
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She has a talent for creating puns that always lighten the mood.
Synonyms
14
6.0
Clever or funny use of words often with puns
A clever use of words that sound alike to make a joke
How Clever
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4.8
14
6.0
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word pun is probably linked to an old idea of something 'pointed' or 'sharp', like a tiny point that can poke you. So a pun is a 'sharp' joke that plays on different meanings or on words that sound alike.