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A play on words, sometimes on different senses of the same word and sometimes on the similar sense or sound of different words; the word or phrase used in this way: A pun is the humorous use of a word or phrase so as to emphasize or suggest its different meanings or applications, or the use of words that are alike or nearly alike in sound but different in meaning.
"The pigs were a squeal" is a great pun!
A witticism that the listener groans at because he didn't think of it first.
A pun is the lowest form of humor—when you don't think of it first.
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A form of word humor when people fiddle with words and laugh at the resultant loony tunes: pun quotes.
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A form of word humor when people fiddle with words and laugh at the resultant loony tunes: pun quotes.
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(a form of word humor when people fiddle with words and laugh at the resultant loony tunes: Considered by some to be the lowest form of humus, earthy wit that we all dig and often respond to with groans and moans)
(a form of word humor when people fiddle with words and laugh at the resultant loony tunes; considered by some to be the lowest form of humus, earthy wit, that we all dig and often respond to with groans and moans)