pun
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[edit] English
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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.
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Note: Because some puns are based on pronunciation, puns are more obvious when spoken aloud.
- This rock is gneiss, but don’t take it for granite (which reads (with a US accent) similarly to “This rock is nice, but don’t take it for granted”; “gneiss” and “granite” are both types of rock)
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- See also Wikisaurus:joke
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joke or type of wordplay
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to pun (third-person singular simple present puns, present participle punning, simple past and past participle punned)
- To tell a pun, to make a play on words.
- We punned about the topic until all around us groaned.
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From a Common Slavic poln
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pun
[edit] Romanian
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- IPA: [pun]
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pun
- first-person singular present tense form of pune.
- first-person singular subjunctive form of pune.
- third-person plural present tense form of pune.
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pun m.
- (onomatopoeia) The sound of discharging a firearm.
- (onomatopoeia, vulgar) The sound of flatulence.