punning in English

verb
1
make a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word.
his first puzzle punned on composers, with answers like “Handel with care” and “Haydn go seek”
noun

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "punning" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "punning", or refer to the context using the word "punning" in the English Dictionary.

1. Annomination ( plural Annominations ) ( obsolete) paronomasia; punning

2. What does Annomination mean? (obsolete) Paronomasia; punning

3. George added, "She doesn't like Bedabbling." George is punning on …

4. 22 The hotelier family's punning motif-a bull with its horns to the ground-was woven into the vestibule carpet.

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6. Plautus might seem more verbose, but where he lacks in physical comedy he makes up for it with words, alliteration and paronomasia (punning).

7. ‘Punning on the meaning of grande as tall or as grand in the social sense, the seventeenth-century commentator noted the reference to the Courtesans and prostitutes of Venice.’

8. Adminicle: that which supports or aids, especially evidence Adnascent: growing on some other thing adnominal: indicating adjective used as a noun adnomination: punning adnoun: adjective serving or used as a noun adonise: to adorn oneself adoptionism: belief that Christ was the adopted and not natural son of God adoral: near the mouth adosculation