punning
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- noun
- /ˈpʌnɪŋ/
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juego de palabras
- She is known for her punning, often creating jokes that play on the double meanings of words.
- punning challenge
If you don't like my puns, get out of the pun kitchen.
- If you don't like my puns, get out of the pun kitchen.
- She knows that puns are the Kiwi to my heart.
- Coming up with my own puns and making people laugh.
- It's sort of a pun on the concept of double buffering.
- Matt, Sometimes I wish that I'd come up with better puns.
- And I want to get knee deep into that shit with you, pun intended.
- My family loves telling Cordy jokes and using puns, so this card is really going to reflect that.
- But even more common is puns based on sound, because Chinese is so full of homophones.
Examples
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Still, the punning that Hutcheon celebrates in postmodern architecture hardly seems startling to someone who has read Joyce or Faulkner.
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If you don't like my puns, get out of the pun kitchen.
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And so there may be a few puns in this section.
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However, Dickinson's punning is never simple.
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I guess I'm the one that makes all the worst puns in all the videos.
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Now the the top ten included a few puns, and here's one of them.
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But these are the people, these are the puns that you're relying on.
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Punning is a device found often enough in Poe's comedic tales.
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And as it turns out cross culturally dads love puns and word play.
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The comedian's punning during the show had everyone laughing at his clever wordplay.
Synonyms
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A joke that uses the different meanings of a word or words that sound the same
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Clever or funny use of words often with puns
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A clever or funny use of words to make jokes
A clever use of words that sound alike to make a joke
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Etymology
Punning comes from the short word pun, which means a 'play on words'. Some people think pun may come from old words meaning 'point', so a helpful way to remember it is to imagine a pun as a small 'point' that shows a second meaning in a word, and that's why punning is joking by using words with 'double meanings'.