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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a humorous play on words;
- Example: "I do it for the pun of it"
- Example: "his constant punning irritated her"
[syn: pun, punning, wordplay, paronomasia]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Wordplay \Word"play`\, n.
   A more or less subtle playing upon the meaning of words.
   [Webster 1913 Suppl.]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

wordplay
    n 1: a humorous play on words; "I do it for the pun of it"; "his
         constant punning irritated her" [syn: pun, punning,
         wordplay, paronomasia]


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

21 Moby Thesaurus words for "wordplay":
   abuse of terms, acrostic, amphibologism, amphiboly, anagram,
   calembour, corruption, equivocality, equivoque, jeu de mots,
   logogram, logogriph, malapropism, metagram, missaying, palindrome,
   paronomasia, play on words, pun, punning, spoonerism