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punning


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Pun  \Pun\,  v.  i.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Punned};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Punning}.] 
  To  make  puns,  or  a  pun;  to  use  a  word  in  a  double  sense 
  especially  when  the  contrast  of  ideas  is  ludicrous;  to  play 
  upon  words  to  quibble.  --Dryden. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  punning 
  n  :  a  humorous  play  on  words  "I  do  it  for  the  pun  of  it"  [syn: 
  {pun},  {wordplay}] 




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