Dictionary Entry
pun
pun is a 3-letter English word with 6 senses as transitive verb, noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To pound. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
3 letters · Scrabble 5 · Words With Friends 8 · 6 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To pound.
- 2noun
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.
- 3intransitive verb
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.
- 4transitive verb
To persuade or affect by a pun.
- 5noun
a humorous play on words
"I do it for the pun of it"
"his constant punning irritated her"
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- 6verb
make a play on words
"Japanese like to pun--their language is well suited to punning"
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