pun

Significat (Anglès)

Noun

A joke or type of wordplay in which similar definitions or sounds of two words or phrases, or different definitions of the same word, are deliberately confused.

Verb

1. (obsolete, transitive) To beat; strike with force; to ram; to pound, as in a mortar; reduce to powder, to pulverize.
2. (intransitive) To make or tell a pun; to make a play on words.

Conceptes

joc de paraules

Sinònims

play on words

wordplay

paronomasia

witticism

quibble

clinch

jest

punning

wisecrack

word play

joke

🤣

equivoque

word game

rhyming game

equivoke

go in for rhetoric

acrostic

juggle with words

analogue

clench

double entendre

parody

quip

quirk

repartee

sarcasm

tongue twister

double meaning

Traduccions

Wortspiel

calembour

gioco di parole

jeu de mots

trocadilho

juego de palabras

woordspeling

Kalauer

calambur

Witz

🤣

λογοπαίγνιο

freddura

retruécano

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/pʌn/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: ponnen

Heretat de anglès antic: punian

In summary

From Middle English ponnen, ponen, punen, from Old English punian, pūnian (“to pound, beat, bray, bruise, crush, grind”), from Proto-Germanic *punōną (“to break to pieces, pulverize”). See pound. As a kind of word play, from the notion of "beating" the words into place.