pun

Signification (Anglais)

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.

Concepts

calembour

jeu de mots

bon mot

jeu de mot

Synonymes

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

Traductions

Wortspiel

gioco di parole

trocadilho

juego de palabras

woordspeling

Kalauer

joc de paraules

calambur

Witz

🤣

λογοπαίγνιο

freddura

retruécano

cinas

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/pʌn/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: ponnen

Hérité de ancien anglais: 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.