Thesaurus / punning

punning

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She wasn’t getting performing opportunities, so she dove into improv and puns.

You should hear me at table with the Ulster purser and a little punning microscopist called Davis.

The number of punning devices is very large, and nearly every one has a character peculiarly its own.

A few punning devices occur among the early English printers, but they are not always clever or pictorially successful.

Next to the section of punning devices, perhaps the most entertaining is that which deals with the question of mottoes.

Though I love fun, eternal jesting, buffoonery, punning absolutely kills me.

Sometimes, as here, this subtle sense of double meanings almost leads to punning.

Punning is an art easily acquired; but a pun is usually an impertinence to be excused only by its felicity.

The medical term rachitis was coined about 1650, with a punning allusion to Gr.

The poetical whim of Cretin, a French poet, brought into fashion punning or equivocal rhymes.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985