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Meanings of pun in English
Usage of pun in English
1
Facebook really, really wants you to give VR a go-nopun intended.
2
A pun, my father always says, is the lowest form of humor.
3
And the ruffian chuckled in a half-covert manner at his own pun.
4
I admire anyone who can bypass an obvious pun, ignoring it completely.
5
And he smiled in a sly self-satisfied way at his pious pun.
6
Our correspondent gives us a pun in our last number over again.
7
Dr. Johnson said that the pun was the lowest order of wit.
8
The fact is significant, though the pun itself is not specially characteristic.
9
Nations that convert will get to see the light, pardon the pun.
10
His name was a pun on the medieval Russian czar Boris Godunov.
11
After making this pun he died-thatis the whey it served him.
12
This was one spooked ghost-nopun intended, he thought with a grin.
13
A few hundred dollars a head-no pun intended-in some parts of Africa.
14
Pardon the pun, but that was not your average game of cricket.
15
Without meaning to pun, we may dismiss the claims of palmistry offhand.
16
Pardon the pun, but some things are radier fishy on my end.
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Translations for pun
Russian
Portuguese
Catalan
Spanish
Pun through the time
Pun across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common