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1. Witty, clever, or humorous verbal exchanges or presentations:
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With woe he shouted, "Whoa!" as rain
Without a break did reign.
To brake, he pulled the rein, and like
A shattered pane, he felt pain.
2. Etymology: a word that dates from the mid-1850s which simply means "playing with words."
Without a break did reign.
To brake, he pulled the rein, and like
A shattered pane, he felt pain.
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Here are several examples of wordplays for your pleasure.
- Irene changed her iPod's name to Titanic because it's syncing now.
- When chemists die, others barium.
- Jokes about German sausage are the wurst.
- Adam knows a guy who's addicted to brake fluid. He says he can stop any time.
- How does Moses make his tea? Hebrews it.
- Jane stayed up all night to see where the sun went. Then it dawned on her.
- This girl said she recognized Jim from the vegetarian club, but he said that he never met herbivore.
- Lisa is reading a book about anti-gravity and she just can't put it down.
- Tom did a theatrical performance about puns. It was a play on words.
- The doctor wrote in his medical report that Mike had type A blood, but it really was a type O mistake.
- The students are going on a class trip to the Coca-Cola factory and they hope there's no pop quiz.
- Sam didn't like his beard at first, then it grew on him.
- Did you hear about the cross-eyed teacher who lost her job because she couldn't control her pupils?
- The nurse told Henry, "When you get a bladder infection, urine trouble."
- Sam's pencils keep breaking every time he tries to sharpen them; so, he has quit doing it anymore because broken pencils are pointless.
- Irene tried to catch some fog, but she mist.
- What do you call a dinosaur with an extensive vocabulary? A thesaurus.
- England has no kidney bank, but it does have a Liverpool.
- Mark used to be a banker, but then he lost interest.
- Paul dropped out of communism class because of lousy Marx.
- All the toilets in New York's police stations have been stolen and so now the police have nothing to go on.
- Elizabeth got a job at a bakery because she kneaded dough.
- Haunted French pancakes give Liza the crêpes.
- Velcro — what a rip off!
- A cartoonist was found dead in his home. Details are sketchy.
- Venison for dinner again? Oh deer!
- The earthquake in Washington obviously was the government's fault.
- Ann was told that her father's will was a dead giveaway.
This entry is located in the following unit:
Wordplay or A Play on Words, More Pun Fun
(page 1)
Clever or humorous wit with words, puns. (2)
This entry is located in the following unit:
Word a Day Revisited Index of Cartoons Illustrating the Meanings of Words
(page 83)
(sentences that illustrate the manipulations of words with one meaning into different applications)