This is a pun.
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Pun
//pʌn//
Synonyms for "pun" (73 found)
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Closest matches (15)
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Related words (36)
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2 entriesderived
20 entriesShowing 16 of 20 words.
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2 entriesis a
6 entriesmanner of
1 entriesrelated to
10 entriesTranslations
75 translations across 42 languages.
Albanian
2 entries- kalambur noun (joke or type of wordplay)
- lojë fjalësh noun (joke or type of wordplay)
Arabic
2 entries- جِنَاس noun (joke or type of wordplay)
- لُعْبَة اَلْكَلِمَات noun (joke or type of wordplay)
Armenian
1 entries- բառախաղ noun (joke or type of wordplay)
Belarusian
2 entries- гульня слоў noun (joke or type of wordplay)
- каламбур noun (joke or type of wordplay)
Bulgarian
2 entries- игрословица noun (joke or type of wordplay)
- каламбур noun (joke or type of wordplay)
Catalan
1 entries- joc de paraules noun (joke or type of wordplay)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 俏皮話 /俏皮话 noun (joke or type of wordplay)
- 雙關語 /双关语 noun (joke or type of wordplay)
Czech
1 entries- slovní hříčka noun (joke or type of wordplay)
Danish
1 entries- ordspil noun (joke or type of wordplay)
Dutch
2 entries- woordgrapje noun (joke or type of wordplay)
- woordspeling noun (joke or type of wordplay)
Esperanto
2 entries- kalemburo noun (joke or type of wordplay)
- vortludo noun (joke or type of wordplay)
Finnish
1 entries- sanaleikki noun (joke or type of wordplay)
French
2 entries- calembour noun (joke or type of wordplay)
- jeu de mots noun (joke or type of wordplay)
Georgian
2 entries- ზმა noun (joke or type of wordplay)
- კალამბური noun (joke or type of wordplay)
German
2 entries- Kalauer noun (joke or type of wordplay)
- Wortspiel noun (joke or type of wordplay)
Greek
1 entries- λογοπαίγνιο noun (joke or type of wordplay)
Hebrew
2 entries- לָשׁוֹן נוֹפֵל עַל לָשׁוֹן noun (joke or type of wordplay)
- מִשְׂחַק מִלִּים noun (joke or type of wordplay)
Hungarian
2 entries- szójáték noun (joke or type of wordplay)
- szóvicc noun (joke or type of wordplay)
Icelandic
1 entries- orðaleikur noun (joke or type of wordplay)
Ido
1 entries- kalemburo noun (joke or type of wordplay)
Irish
1 entries- imeartas focal noun (joke or type of wordplay)
Italian
3 entries- bisticcio noun (joke or type of wordplay)
- freddura noun (joke or type of wordplay)
- gioco di parole noun (joke or type of wordplay)
Japanese
3 entries- 洒落 noun (joke or type of wordplay)
- 語呂合わせ noun (joke or type of wordplay)
- 駄洒落 noun (joke or type of wordplay)
Korean
1 entries- 말장난 noun (joke or type of wordplay)
Macedonian
2 entries- игра на зборови noun (joke or type of wordplay)
- каламбур noun (joke or type of wordplay)
Malay
1 entries- jenakata noun (joke or type of wordplay)
Māori
1 entries- kupu angarua noun (joke or type of wordplay)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- ordspill noun (joke or type of wordplay)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- ordspel noun (joke or type of wordplay)
Persian
2 entries- تجنیس noun (joke or type of wordplay)
- جناس noun (joke or type of wordplay)
Polish
2 entries- gra słów noun (joke or type of wordplay)
- kalambur noun (joke or type of wordplay)
Portuguese
4 entries- chalaça noun (joke or type of wordplay)
- trocadilho noun (joke or type of wordplay)
- fazer um trocadilho verb (to make or tell a pun)
- trocadilhar verb (to make or tell a pun)
Romanian
2 entries- calambur noun (joke or type of wordplay)
- joc de cuvinte noun (joke or type of wordplay)
Russian
2 entries- игра́ слов noun (joke or type of wordplay)
- каламбу́р noun (joke or type of wordplay)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- cainnt-chluich noun (joke or type of wordplay)
Spanish
4 entries- albur noun (joke or type of wordplay)
- calambur noun (joke or type of wordplay)
- doble sentido noun (joke or type of wordplay)
- juego de palabras noun (joke or type of wordplay)
Swedish
2 entries- ordlek noun (joke or type of wordplay)
- ordvits noun (joke or type of wordplay)
Tagalog
3 entries- bangkiwi noun (joke or type of wordplay)
- paandar noun (joke or type of wordplay)
- paritugma noun (joke or type of wordplay)
Telugu
1 entries- శ్లేష noun (joke or type of wordplay)
Tibetan
1 entries- ཚིག་རྩེད noun (joke or type of wordplay)
Turkish
1 entries- kelime oyunu noun (joke or type of wordplay)
Yiddish
1 entries- ווערטערשפּיל noun (joke or type of wordplay)
Sample sentences
15 total sentences available.
His style (if you were to call it that) was excessively (though I run the risk of hypocrisy) parenthetical (pardon the pun).
Source: tatoeba (706976)
What's your favorite pun?
Source: tatoeba (906851)
The name of the playwright character in the game MARDEK 3, Akhmed Wobblescimitare, is an obvious pun on William Shakespeare, and I find it pretty amusing.
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