pun

Senso (Inglese)

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.

Concetti

gioco di parole

freddura

bisticcio

fare giochi di parole

parole

polisenso

comprimere

paronomasia

calembour

gioco

sinonimi

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

Traduzioni

Wortspiel

calembour

jeu de mots

trocadilho

juego de palabras

woordspeling

Kalauer

joc de paraules

calambur

Witz

🤣

λογοπαίγνιο

retruécano

cinas

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/pʌn/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: ponnen

Ereditato da inglese antico: 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.