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nounPlural puns pʌnpən A joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words which sound alike but have different meanings. 双关（语） the Railway Society reception was an informal party of people of all stations (excuse the pun) in life 铁路协会招待会是社会各阶层（对不起这里用了双关语——此处亦可作“各车站职工”解）的非正式聚会。 Example sentencesExamples - You'll forgive the pun, but, Rocco, isn't this just a bit Mickey Mouse for you?
- The name Cindy sounds like a near pun to cinders, which speaks again to the idea of complete destruction for the birth of some new work.
- Using the curse of the werewolf as a metaphor for puberty, it's a sharp and, forgive the pun, biting take on adolescence.
- Colonic irrigation may be the butt - excuse the pun - of many a joke, but for those who benefit from the treatment it's no laughing matter.
- The flaming comet on the cover and the name pun on the fact that Chitti's birth year is sadharana in the Hindu calendar, when Haley's comet was sighted.
- We are always grateful to those who take the minute or two to keep us, and their public, in the picture - forgive the pun.
- Our mechanical friend ain't doing too hot - forgive the pun - either.
- Nevertheless, the simple economics of house building mean that once a house has distinctive details, a sizeable garden and large rooms in a desirable location, the price, forgive the pun, will go through the roof.
- Paisley should voice his support for the men of the cloth who will bear witness any disarmament and take their word as, excuse the pun, gospel.
- It's a pun on the fact that Darien called the servants pigs.
- By all reports, the mountain men love mountain women almost as much as winning rugby league games (a cheap pun based on no facts).
- A healthy diet is, if you'll forgive the pun, a movable feast.
- A whole whack of puns, one-liners and double entendres get crammed into the 90-minute running time, and most of them fall flatter than a postage stamp.
- Forgive the pun, but this is a spellbinding book.
- Stuart Wenham how about you give us a bit of a sense of how your work in photovoltaic research has plugged into the Olympic Games, excuse the pun?
- Mrs Conti doubtless had a lively night. Competitive eating has, excuse the pun, become very big over the last two decades.
- And yet, by his own admission, he had no drive - excuse the pun - nor desire to get into selling cars.
- Pornography seems to be a like, excuse the pun, a grind.
- Alexander Witt who has directed this film is a competent second unit director and delivers what is expected of him - absolutely brain-dead stuff - forgive the obnoxious pun!
- We can deduce whether a consonant was sounded from the way puns work.
Synonyms play on words, wordplay, double entendre, double meaning, innuendo, witticism, quip French bon mot, jeu de mots rare paronomasia, equivoque, amphibology, pivot, calembour, carriwitchet, clench, clinch, conundrum, nick, pundigrion, whim, quibble
verbpuns, punned, punning pʌnpən [no object]often as adjective punningMake a pun. Freeth adopted the nickname Free in punning allusion to his beliefs the designer is punning on the street name Example sentencesExamples - Cecilia's surname Dela-mere puns ingeniously: over the sea, but also over the mere or lake.
- There's some sort of joke / pun to be made here using the phrase ‘I'd give my eye teeth ’, but I can't figure out what it is.
- Dreamworks' hands-off approach is evident in the finished film, which is defiantly British in its quirky choice of subject matter and love of absurd punning.
- His reputation was revived by the Surrealists, who admired his visual punning.
- There's plenty more punning jokes like that, spouting from the crooked mouth of Harrogate Theatre's dimple-cheeky silly billy, Tim Stedman.
- When he puns on the word ‘swallow ‘in his Lewinsky song, they rock with laughter.’
- I'm so bitter and bitchy, I can't even be bothered to pun on that last sentence.
- Built by Federico II Gonzaga to entertain his lover - hence the punning name: ‘Tea Palace’ and/or ‘You Palace’.
- The laws of sexual selection in the Great British Tabloid mean that you must pun, because punning is what the readers expect.
- Of course, any respectably Derridean response to that would then pun on the word ‘re-mark’ and launch into a discussion of film, testimony, and writing.
- Gas from a Burner is a poem which puns on the word gas.
- Act 3, Scene 1, line 5 The clown puns expertly, then says that words are so easy to manipulate, so easy to use for bad purposes, that he is afraid to use them.
- First, it isn't Hobbes's view that the relation between states is characterised as involving a ‘clubbable’ social life, unless we're punning on ‘club’.
- Cruelly punning, he calls his baroness ‘Barrenness’.
- The punning allusion would have delighted at least some contemporaries.
- There are some truly stupid sequel titles out there, which are either puns on the word ‘two’ or add some extra element to the original that lets you know it's a sequel.
- Some of Mullen's pieces reflect the universal forms of riddles and punning found at the origins of all literatures.
- In his great novel Ulysses, James Joyce, punning on the old line ‘An Englishman's home is his castle’ reflects that ‘The Irishman's house is his coffin’.
- Any theatre which presents a drama about poker lays itself open to critics punning madly about it ‘taking a gamble’ or ‘playing for high stakes’.
- Many philosophers and social scientists regard Derrida and Lacan primarily as literary jesters, as both are noted for their elaborate punning and impenetrably dense style.
- The plots usually concerned customs surrounding marriage and procreation, while mocking the earthier aspects of love and sex, and punning on gender reversals.
- The word ‘sine’ can be punned with the word ‘sign’, or loosely, ‘symbol’.
- For a while, the evangelical cohort remained fair game: we could pun on Pentecostals, have fun with fundamentalists and chuckle over conservatives.
- He could also be relied on to make punning use of the word ‘horn’ in his show titles.
- The punning allusion to the Cubism of Picasso's eyes is exact.
- The title was something to do with punning on ‘writer's block’ or ‘bloggers' rights’.
- What is one to do with the oh-so-clever title of the book, which puns on ‘regarding’ as both a visual and cognitive facility?
- The present US administration alone has generated travelgate, nannygate, sexgate, troopergate, fornigate, whitewatergate (at least that one has a punning reference to the original), and filegate.
- Howard puns shamelessly on ‘member’ and ‘knocked off’ to suggest the sham and bravura behind protocols of cultural authority.
- She hit the headlines last month when an advertisement punning on a nursery rhyme was banned for being likely to harm children.
- The constant punning and allusions through sampling naturally makes them literate in the most unpretentious manner I have heard and seen out of a group so avant-garde.
- Exploration of linguistic cross-references yields some stylistic delights, such as the felicitously punning chapter title ‘Trojan Whores.’
- Lay brother Julian (the word lay is punned on ad nauseam) is seduced by Miss Alice in grotesque fashion.
- Is it possible that in 1687-8 his informant was punning with Joutel?
- There are so many rhyming couplets, which lends itself to rap, and so much punning and wordplay, which are the same tools that hip-hop uses.
- Michelle Kearney, the magazine's editor, likes to stand in front of large photos of slashing scalpels while punning: ‘We are totally cutting edge’.
- While the work puns on Minimalist sculpture by Carl Andre, it also serves as an emblem of cleanliness in the age of AIDS.
- He puns on its image to connote a flower, by delineating its rays in the shape of petals.
- The Sages of the Talmud put it pithily, punning on the Hebrew word for ‘etched,’ used in reference to the words carved on the Tablets of the Law.’
- It's a densely allusive, punning, always associative flow that manages to keep its narrative movement alive with dizzying glances in all directions along the way.
Derivativesadverb ˈpʌnɪŋliˈpənɪŋli In turn, the double sirloin joined by the lumbar spine became punningly known as a baron of beef. Example sentencesExamples - This subject, called punningly by Lacan le sujet troue (the subject full of holes), uses an objet trouvé (a found object) to figure both the hole and the bit that's missing.
- Actually it's punningly called Steps To The Stars because the show is presented to two members of teen sensation, Steps.
- Who else would write, let alone attempt to sing, a line such as ‘I hate verisimilitude’, or punningly entitle a song ‘Neil Jung’?
- And Gertrude retaliates in kind when she punningly and pithily retorts: ‘We shall as soon get a fart from a dead man as a farthing of courtesy here.’
noun ˈpʌnstəˈpənstər A person who is fond of making puns. the punster's mind cycles through homophones in search of a quip Example sentencesExamples - But Norris also will be remembered as the ultimate pin punster and prankster.
- For that, and for the delight of his surname which pleases headline writers and punsters everywhere, it is wonderful that Jim Butter - Fingers to his pals - will be with us for at least another season.
- Larry, I just hope that all the punsters and pollsters and pundits are wrong, and it's not close.
OriginMid 17th century: perhaps an abbreviation of obsolete pundigrion, as a fanciful alteration of punctilio. Rhymesbegun, bun, done, Donne, dun, fine-spun, forerun, fun, gun, Gunn, hon, Hun, none, nun, one, one-to-one, outdone, outgun, outrun, plus-one, run, shun, son, spun, stun, sun, ton, tonne, tun, underdone, Verdun, won verbpuns, punned, punning pʌnpən [with object]British Consolidate (earth or rubble) by pounding it. 〈英〉把（土，碎石）捣固（或夯实）
OriginMid 16th century: dialect variant of pound2. nounpənpən A joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words which sound alike but have different meanings. 双关（语） the pigs were a squeal (if you'll forgive the pun) Example sentencesExamples - Colonic irrigation may be the butt - excuse the pun - of many a joke, but for those who benefit from the treatment it's no laughing matter.
- Stuart Wenham how about you give us a bit of a sense of how your work in photovoltaic research has plugged into the Olympic Games, excuse the pun?
- Using the curse of the werewolf as a metaphor for puberty, it's a sharp and, forgive the pun, biting take on adolescence.
- A whole whack of puns, one-liners and double entendres get crammed into the 90-minute running time, and most of them fall flatter than a postage stamp.
- You'll forgive the pun, but, Rocco, isn't this just a bit Mickey Mouse for you?
- It's a pun on the fact that Darien called the servants pigs.
- Nevertheless, the simple economics of house building mean that once a house has distinctive details, a sizeable garden and large rooms in a desirable location, the price, forgive the pun, will go through the roof.
- Paisley should voice his support for the men of the cloth who will bear witness any disarmament and take their word as, excuse the pun, gospel.
- Our mechanical friend ain't doing too hot - forgive the pun - either.
- Mrs Conti doubtless had a lively night. Competitive eating has, excuse the pun, become very big over the last two decades.
- The flaming comet on the cover and the name pun on the fact that Chitti's birth year is sadharana in the Hindu calendar, when Haley's comet was sighted.
- And yet, by his own admission, he had no drive - excuse the pun - nor desire to get into selling cars.
- By all reports, the mountain men love mountain women almost as much as winning rugby league games (a cheap pun based on no facts).
- A healthy diet is, if you'll forgive the pun, a movable feast.
- Pornography seems to be a like, excuse the pun, a grind.
- Forgive the pun, but this is a spellbinding book.
- The name Cindy sounds like a near pun to cinders, which speaks again to the idea of complete destruction for the birth of some new work.
- We are always grateful to those who take the minute or two to keep us, and their public, in the picture - forgive the pun.
- Alexander Witt who has directed this film is a competent second unit director and delivers what is expected of him - absolutely brain-dead stuff - forgive the obnoxious pun!
- We can deduce whether a consonant was sounded from the way puns work.
Synonyms play on words, wordplay, double entendre, double meaning, innuendo, witticism, quip
verbpənpən [no object]Make a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word. 谐用双关语 his first puzzle punned on composers, with answers like “Handel with care” and “Haydn go seek” Example sentencesExamples - Is it possible that in 1687-8 his informant was punning with Joutel?
- Michelle Kearney, the magazine's editor, likes to stand in front of large photos of slashing scalpels while punning: ‘We are totally cutting edge’.
- Howard puns shamelessly on ‘member’ and ‘knocked off’ to suggest the sham and bravura behind protocols of cultural authority.
- The present US administration alone has generated travelgate, nannygate, sexgate, troopergate, fornigate, whitewatergate (at least that one has a punning reference to the original), and filegate.
- For a while, the evangelical cohort remained fair game: we could pun on Pentecostals, have fun with fundamentalists and chuckle over conservatives.
- She hit the headlines last month when an advertisement punning on a nursery rhyme was banned for being likely to harm children.
- Of course, any respectably Derridean response to that would then pun on the word ‘re-mark’ and launch into a discussion of film, testimony, and writing.
- Many philosophers and social scientists regard Derrida and Lacan primarily as literary jesters, as both are noted for their elaborate punning and impenetrably dense style.
- There are so many rhyming couplets, which lends itself to rap, and so much punning and wordplay, which are the same tools that hip-hop uses.
- The constant punning and allusions through sampling naturally makes them literate in the most unpretentious manner I have heard and seen out of a group so avant-garde.
- I'm so bitter and bitchy, I can't even be bothered to pun on that last sentence.
- There's plenty more punning jokes like that, spouting from the crooked mouth of Harrogate Theatre's dimple-cheeky silly billy, Tim Stedman.
- Exploration of linguistic cross-references yields some stylistic delights, such as the felicitously punning chapter title ‘Trojan Whores.’
- Gas from a Burner is a poem which puns on the word gas.
- Built by Federico II Gonzaga to entertain his lover - hence the punning name: ‘Tea Palace’ and/or ‘You Palace’.
- Cecilia's surname Dela-mere puns ingeniously: over the sea, but also over the mere or lake.
- Cruelly punning, he calls his baroness ‘Barrenness’.
- It's a densely allusive, punning, always associative flow that manages to keep its narrative movement alive with dizzying glances in all directions along the way.
- The laws of sexual selection in the Great British Tabloid mean that you must pun, because punning is what the readers expect.
- First, it isn't Hobbes's view that the relation between states is characterised as involving a ‘clubbable’ social life, unless we're punning on ‘club’.
- His reputation was revived by the Surrealists, who admired his visual punning.
- The title was something to do with punning on ‘writer's block’ or ‘bloggers' rights’.
- The punning allusion would have delighted at least some contemporaries.
- What is one to do with the oh-so-clever title of the book, which puns on ‘regarding’ as both a visual and cognitive facility?
- He puns on its image to connote a flower, by delineating its rays in the shape of petals.
- There are some truly stupid sequel titles out there, which are either puns on the word ‘two’ or add some extra element to the original that lets you know it's a sequel.
- The word ‘sine’ can be punned with the word ‘sign’, or loosely, ‘symbol’.
- Some of Mullen's pieces reflect the universal forms of riddles and punning found at the origins of all literatures.
- Act 3, Scene 1, line 5 The clown puns expertly, then says that words are so easy to manipulate, so easy to use for bad purposes, that he is afraid to use them.
- The Sages of the Talmud put it pithily, punning on the Hebrew word for ‘etched,’ used in reference to the words carved on the Tablets of the Law.’
- Lay brother Julian (the word lay is punned on ad nauseam) is seduced by Miss Alice in grotesque fashion.
- Dreamworks' hands-off approach is evident in the finished film, which is defiantly British in its quirky choice of subject matter and love of absurd punning.
- While the work puns on Minimalist sculpture by Carl Andre, it also serves as an emblem of cleanliness in the age of AIDS.
- There's some sort of joke / pun to be made here using the phrase ‘I'd give my eye teeth ’, but I can't figure out what it is.
- Any theatre which presents a drama about poker lays itself open to critics punning madly about it ‘taking a gamble’ or ‘playing for high stakes’.
- When he puns on the word ‘swallow ‘in his Lewinsky song, they rock with laughter.’
- He could also be relied on to make punning use of the word ‘horn’ in his show titles.
- The punning allusion to the Cubism of Picasso's eyes is exact.
- The plots usually concerned customs surrounding marriage and procreation, while mocking the earthier aspects of love and sex, and punning on gender reversals.
- In his great novel Ulysses, James Joyce, punning on the old line ‘An Englishman's home is his castle’ reflects that ‘The Irishman's house is his coffin’.
OriginMid 17th century: perhaps an abbreviation of obsolete pundigrion, as a fanciful alteration of punctilio. verbpənpən [with object]British Consolidate (earth or rubble) by pounding it. 〈英〉把（土，碎石）捣固（或夯实）
OriginMid 16th century: dialect variant of pound. |