noun. A play on words, sometimes on different senses of the same word and sometimes on the similar sense or sound of different words.

intransitive verb. To make puns or a pun.

noun. A copper coin of Bengal, of the value of 80 cowries.

noun. An abbreviation of puncheon.

To make puns.

To affect by a pun.

noun. An expression in which the use of a word in two different applications, or the use of two different words pronounced alike or nearly alike, presents an odd or ludicrous idea; a play on words that are alike or nearly alike in sound but differ in meaning; a kind of verbal quibble.

noun. Synonyms Pun, Paronomasia, Assonance. Pun and paronomasia are often confounded, but are in strictness distinct in form and effect. A pun is a play upon two senses of the same word or sound, and its effect is to excite a sense of the ludicrous: as

noun. Hence modern taste excludes puns from serious writing and speaking. Paronomasia is rather the use of words that are nearly but not quite alike in sound, and it heightens the effect of what is said withot suggesting the ludicrous: as, “Per angusta ad augusta”; “And catch with his surcease success,”

noun. As in these examples, it is most likely to be used where the words thus near in sound are far apart in meaning. It is very common in the original languages of the Bible, especially in the Old Testament, as in Isa. v. 7. An attempt to imitate it may be found in Mat. xxi. 41, revised version. Assonance is the bare fact of resemblance of sound, being generally accidental, and in the majority of cases disagreeable to the ear: as, unfold old truths, our power, if of, is as, and Andrew drew, the then condition. For the technical meaning of assonance, see def. 2 under that word.

To beat; strike with force; ram; pound, as in a mortar; reduce to powder.

transitive verb. To pound.

noun. A play on words which have the same sound but different meanings; an expression in which two different applications of a word present an odd or ludicrous idea; a kind of quibble or equivocation.

transitive verb. To persuade or affect by a pun.

intransitive verb. 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.

verb. To beat; strike with force; ram; pound, as in a mortar; reduce to powder.

noun. 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.

verb. To make or tell a pun; make a play on words.

verb. make a play on words

noun. a humorous play on words

"Or, Pouring Ketchup On An Over-cooked Campaign, or Ketchup Money to Help Campaign Catch Up, or some sort of bad pun involving Ketchup, money and catch up bonus points if you can also work "kvetch" into the pun*:Unlike Dean and Bush, Kerry said he will put his own money into the campaign, becoming the first Democrat in at least 20 years to do so."

antanaclasis  paronomasia  

punned  punning  

fun  jest  joke  play  sport  

Donne  Gunn  Hon  Hun  Jun  

allegory  allusion  anecdote  banter  blunder  

abuse of terms  acrostic  alliterate  alliteration  ambiguity  

punned  punning  

punned  punning  puns