Wordplay vs. Pun

Wordplaynoun

A humorous play on words; such plays on words collectively.

Wordplaynoun

A witty verbal exchange; such exchanges collectively.

Wordplaynoun

A more or less subtle playing upon the meaning of words.

Wordplaynoun

a humorous play on words;

Punverb

(transitive) To beat; strike with force; to ram; to pound, as in a mortar; reduce to powder, to pulverize.

Punverb

(intransitive) To make or tell a pun; to make a play on words.

Punnoun

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.

Punnoun

: a Korean unit of length equivalent to about 0.3{{nbsp}}cm.

Punverb

To pound.

Punverb

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.

Punverb

To persuade or affect by a pun.

Punnoun

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.

Punnoun

a humorous play on words;

Punverb

make a play on words;

Pun

The pun, also known as paronomasia, is a form of word play that exploits multiple meanings of a term, or of similar-sounding words, for an intended humorous or rhetorical effect. These ambiguities can arise from the intentional use of homophonic, homographic, metonymic, or figurative language.