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Longer explanations and many examples of different sorts of puns are in the grammar-language glossary via the links: pun - a word or word-combination which sounds like another with a different meaning, usually in a contextual statement, joke, or piece of dialogue; usually spoken, but may also be written. Pun also refers to the effect of the pun, loosely equating to a joke or quip which exploits the punning words. Pun is also a verb, used mainly when commenting that one word or another 'puns' with another.
For example the adaptation of 'Alzheimer's disease' to 'old-timer's disease'. Also the word pun is used as a verb 'to pun' , whereas paronomasia is only used as a noun - see paronomasia brief history of puns and punning The word pun is first recorded in English in the mids, and is thought according to the Oxford English Dictionary to derive from a now obsolete longer English term 'pundigrion', adapted from the word punctilio, which refers to 'a fine or petty point of conduct or procedure'.
Many jokes that do not seem to be puns are in fact very definitely based on puns, for example: A charity worker knocked at my door collecting for the local swimming pool; so I gave him a bucket of water. And what's pink and wrinkly and hangs out your pants?
Your mum. Here 'hangs out' is the pun. The following list of puns are more modern. The cake you are now eating is your current bun. In a Biblical play, Adam would be a fig role. Santa Clause - patron saint of grammar. The poorest ocean species is the porpoise pawpers. Irony is an amusingly pressed shirt. I nearly bought a clock today but it wasn't the right time. Certain churches welcome donations in dollars and incense. Badly finished garments are unseemly.
Poorly run fishing companies have a net loss. Seating at sad stage shows is usually teared. What a man are you! When she spoke, Tom held his breath, so eagerly he listened; when she sang, he sat like one entranced. She touched his organ, and from that bright epoch even it, the old companion of his happiest hours, incapable as he had thought of elevation, began a new and deified existence. Pun is a word play which exploits different possible meanings of a word or similarity in appearance and sound between two words.
Double Entendre is a word or phrase open to two interpretations, one of which is usually indecent or sexually suggestive.
Pun can be used to create a double entendre. Get Word of the Day daily email! Test Your Vocabulary. Can you spell these 10 commonly misspelled words? Love words? Need even more definitions?
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