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Definition of punning in English Turkish dictionary
- hafifçe tokmaklama
- pun
- {f} sözcük oyunu yapmak
- pun
- {i} kelime oyunu
En sevdiğin kelime oyunu nedir?
-What's your favorite pun?
- pun
- {f} kelime oyunu yap
- pun
- cinas
O çok kötü bir cinas.
-That is a very bad pun.
Cinas ne yazık ki çevrilemez.
-The pun is unfortunately untranslatable.
- pun
- sözcük oyunu
Bu çok kötü bir sözcük oyunu.
-That's a very bad pun.
O sözcük oyunu müthiştir.
-That pun is terrible.
- pun
- {i} lastikli söz
- pun
- {f} kelime oyunu yapmak
- pun
- nükteli söz söylemek
- pun
- {f} cinas yapmak
- pun
- sözcük oyunu yap
- pun
- sözcük oyun
Bu çok kötü bir sözcük oyunu.
-That's a very bad pun.
Seyirci Tom'un sözcük oyunlarından bazılarına sızlandı.
-The audience groaned at some of Tom's puns.
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Definition of punning in English English dictionary
- The action of the verb to pun
- That which makes or uses a pun
The spoonerism Burly Chassis is a punning reference to Shirley Bassey's voluptuous figure.
- Present participle of pun
- pun
- To tell a pun, to make a play on words
We punned about the topic until all around us groaned.
- punning.
- biverbal
- pun
- {n} a quibble, a low or ludicrous repartee
- pun
- make a play on words; "Japanese like to pun--their language is well suited to punning"
- pun
- To pound
- pun
- Logical CP/M punch device The punch device is an output-only device accessed through the PUNCH entry point of the BIOS In certain implementations, PUN: can be a serial device such as a modem
- pun
- The lowest form of humor, until you get a chance to use it
- pun
- A joke or type of wordplay in which similar senses or sounds of two words or phrases, or different senses of the same word, are deliberately confused
- pun
- an expression that uses a homonym (two different words spelled identically) to deliver two or more meanings at the same time For example, "When Professor Fudge asked his graduate students to bring a really good lay to the next class, their collective opinion of the scholar went up a notch "
- pun
- a play on words, usually for humourous purposes (i e "comb on now, style my hair")
- pun
- make a play on words; "Japanese like to pun--their language is well suited to punning
- pun
- A pun is a clever and amusing use of a word or phrase with two meanings, or of words with the same sound but different meanings. For example, if someone says `The peasants are revolting', this is a pun because it can be interpreted as meaning either that the peasants are fighting against authority, or that they are disgusting. an amusing use of a word or phrase that has two meanings, or of words that have the same sound but different meanings = play on words forgive/excuse/pardon the pun (=used to show you know you are making a pun) no pun intended (=used to show you do not mean to make a joke about something) (Probably from pundigrion (17-19 centuries), perhaps from puntiglio; PUNCTILIOUS). punned punning to make a pun pun on
- pun
- To make puns, or a pun; to use a word in a double sense, especially when the contrast of ideas is ludicrous; to play upon words; to quibble
- pun
- a humorous play on words; "I do it for the pun of it"; "his constant punning irritated her"
- pun
- A word play suggesting, with humorous intent, the different meanings of one word or the use of two or more words similar in sound but different in meaning
- pun
- {f} make a play on words, use words humorously to create several possible meanings
- pun
- A play on words that are the same or similar in sound but different in meaning
- pun
- To persuade or affect by a pun
- pun
- a humorous play on words; "I do it for the pun of it"; "his constant punning irritated her" make a play on words; "Japanese like to pun--their language is well suited to punning
- pun
- A play on words which have the same sound but different meanings; an expression in which two different applications of a word present an odd or ludicrous idea; a kind of quibble or equivocation
- pun
- {i} play on words, humorous use of words in order to create several possible meanings
- pun
- Play on words, often comic Eg when the dying Mercutio in 'Romeo and Juliet' says "Ask for me tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man"
- pun
- Elaborate word play using similar sounds or concepts
- pun
- - a play on words that relies on a word's having more than one meaning or sounding like another word
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