Pun is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PUN in dictionary:

VERB:
• to make a play on words
• make a pun
• consolidate (earth or rubble) by pounding it.
• To pound.
• To make puns, or a pun; to use a word in a double sense, especially when the contrast of ideas is ludicrous; to play upon words; to quibble.
• To persuade or affect by a pun.
• make puns
NOUN:
• a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words which sound alike but have different meanings
• use of words to exploit double meanings for humorous effect
• A play on words which have the same sound but different meanings; an expression in which two different applications of a word present an odd or ludicrous idea; a kind of quibble or equivocation.
• a humorous play on words
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to make a pun (a play on words)

Words related to PUN

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Words that contain PUN

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How to use PUN in a sentence

• A custom is sometimes as difficult to explain to a foreigner as a pun.
• A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit.
• We take it, that, in the mother country, the monopoly of land interferes with this, and that game laws, by a sort of spontaneous pun, tend to introduce games.
• The old gentlemen who had been shoved about enjoyed the pun too much to be angry.
• Thinking, perhaps, to draw out the odd character, he ventured upon a jest himself, repeating a pun invented by the man who made the first soda fountain.
• The secret of his power in the pun is, that he does not rest in the analogy of sound alone, but seeks also for analogy of significance.
• It is impossible to conceive that this is a kind of sacred pun.
• Behind the Preacher stands Death, and, with a kind of grotesque practical pun, holds the jaw of a skeleton over his head, as far more eloquent than his own.
• The apple dropping on the head of Newton struck him like a very far-fetched pun.
• The two physicians were obliged to keep up a sickly intercourse, not intending a pun.
• The fact is significant, though the pun itself is not specially characteristic.
• Not a remark, not a word in any assembly, which this witty specimen of humanity does not at once garnish with a pun of the poorest description.
• Shenstone had some reason in thanking Heaven that his name was not susceptible of a pun.
• Then pun them with a due proportion of Sugar, and a little Orange-flower, or Rose-water.
• His round, jolly face was always wreathed in smiles, a joke, a pun, or story always forthcoming, and business the last thing to be considered.
• Such Usage, without a Pun, makes me look very blank.
• It is much more than a pun, it is the prime political irony of our history that the Commons were destroying the commons.
• The fate of this work was decided like that of many more important things, by a trifle, a word, a pun.
• Johnson was right when he said that the man who would make a pun would pick a pocket.
• Merimee tries to reproduce a Russian pun by means of a play on these words.
• We found a whole tract of marsh had been set on fire by the facetious negro called Pun, who had helped me out of it some time ago.
• Is it possible that this may be an early and neglected sonnet of Milton? and yet, could Milton have seriously perpetrated the pun in the second line? C.

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