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Synonyms for pun
pʌnpun

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Princeton's WordNet1.9 / 9 votes

  1. pun, punning, wordplay, paronomasiaverb

    a humorous play on words

    "I do it for the pun of it"; "his constant punning irritated her"

    Synonyms:
    wordplay, paronomasia, punning

  2. punverb

    make a play on words

    "Japanese like to pun--their language is well suited to punning"

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Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. punnoun

    Synonyms:
    quibble, clinch, calembour, play upon words

  2. punverb

    Synonyms:
    quibble, play upon words, make a pun

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. punnoun

    Synonyms:
    paragram

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "pun":

    poon, disk, pan, bonn, liquidation

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How to use pun in a sentence?

  1. Naomi Osaka:

    I would love to go just to get some experience on the grass court, but like at the same time, for me, it's kind of like -- I don't want to say pointless, no pun intended, but I'm the type of player that gets motivated by, like, seeing my ranking go up or, like, you know, stuff like that, so I think the intention was really good, but the execution is kind of all over the place.

  2. Jake Steinerman:

    Once the technology disappears in the eye of the consumer, no pun intended, I think there will be a lot less pushback than what we’ve seen in the last one or two years.

  3. Steve Stanulis:

    And I think the answer would still be ‘ no. ’ I was accused of going out with a bang – no pun intended. But I guess I did go out with a bang as far as [ the work ] was concerned. … But I was always a professional.

  4. Whitney Way Thore:

    Fat-shaming is a thing ; it's a really big thing, no pun intended, it is the really nasty spawn of a larger parent problem called body-shaming, which I'm fairly certain everyone on the planet, especially women, has experienced.

  5. Robert Chapman:

    A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion.


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