pun

Significado (Inglés)

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.

Conceptos

juego de palabras

calambur

retruécano

equívoco

juego de voces

juego de vocablos

albur

jugar del vocablo

Sinónimos

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

Traducciones

calembour

Wortspiel

gioco di parole

jeu de mots

trocadilho

woordspeling

Kalauer

joc de paraules

Witz

🤣

λογοπαίγνιο

freddura

cinas

fare giochi di parole

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/pʌn/

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de inglés medio: ponnen

Heredado de inglés antiguo: 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.