pun

Bedeutung (Englisch)

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.

Konzepte

Wortspiel

Kalauer

Witz

🤣

Wortwitz

Kakekotoba

Wortspiel mit Homonymen

Wortspielereien

Wortspielerei

Wordspiel

Paronomasie

Wortspiele machend

Reimspiel

Synonyme

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

Übersetzungen

calembour

gioco di parole

jeu de mots

juego de palabras

trocadilho

woordspeling

calambur

joc de paraules

λογοπαίγνιο

cinas

freddura

retruécano

bisticcio

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/pʌn/

Etymologie (Englisch)

Geerbt von Mittelenglisch: ponnen

Geerbt von Altenglisch: 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.