PUN

pun, punning, wordplay, paronomasia

(noun) 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”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Proper noun

Pun (plural Puns)

A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Pun is the 21736th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1197 individuals. Pun is most common among Asian/Pacific Islander (87.13%) individuals.

Anagrams

• UPN, nup

Etymology 1

Verb

pun (third-person singular simple present puns, present participle punning, simple past and past participle punned)

(transitive) To beat; strike with force; to ram; to pound, as in a mortar; reduce to powder, to pulverize.

(intransitive) To make or tell a pun; to make a play on words.

Noun

pun (plural puns)

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.

Synonyms: paronomasia, play on words

Hypernym: joke

Hyponym: antanaclasis

Etymology 2

Noun

pun (plural puns or pun)

(Korean units of measure) Alternative form of bun: a Korean unit of length equivalent to about 0.3 cm.

Anagrams

• UPN, nup

Source: Wiktionary


Pun, v. t. Etym: [See Pound to beat.]

Definition: To pound. [Obs.] He would pun thee into shivers with his fist. Shak.

Pun, n. Etym: [Cf. Pun to pound, Pound to beat.]

Definition: 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. A better put on this word was made on the Beggar's Opera, which, it was said, made Gay rich, and Rich gay. Walpole.

Pun, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Punned; p. pr. & vb. n. Punning.]

Definition: 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.

Pun, v. t.

Definition: To persuade or affect by a pun. Addison.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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