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Definition pun
Etymology 1
From Middle English ponnen, ponen, punen, from Old English punian, p?nian (“to pound, beat, bray, bruise, crush, grind”), from Proto-Germanic *pun?n? (“to break to pieces, pulverize”). See pound. As a kind of word play, from the notion of "beating" the words into place.
Verb
pun (third-person singular simple present puns, present participle punning, simple past and past participle punned)
- (transitive) To beat; strike with force; to ram; to pound, as in a mortar; reduce to powder, to pulverize.
- (intransitive) To make or tell a pun; to make a play on words.
Noun
pun (plural puns)
- 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.
Etymology 2
From the McCune-Reischauer romanization of Korean ? (bun), from Chinese ? (“fen”)
Noun
pun (plural puns or pun)
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