pun

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pun (plural puns)

  1. 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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  • Because some puns are based on pronunciation, puns are more obvious when spoken aloud. For example: “This rock is gneiss, but don’t take it for granite.” This 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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pun (third-person singular simple present puns, present participle punning, simple past and past participle punned)

  1. To tell a pun, to make a play on words.
    We punned about the topic until all around us groaned.

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pun

  1. first-person singular present tense form of pune.
  2. first-person singular subjunctive form of pune.
  3. third-person plural present tense form of pune.

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From Proto-Slavic *pьlnъ, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós.

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pȕn (definite pȕnī, Cyrillic spelling пу̏н)

  1. full, filled
  2. fleshy, plump
  3. full, complete
  4. occupied (of room)

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pun m. (usually uncountable)

  1. (onomatopoeia) The sound of discharging a firearm
  2. (onomatopoeia, vulgar) The sound of flatulence

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