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A humorous play on words.

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Uso de punning em inglês
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There is a certain playfulness and punning in many of the works.
The Irish Times
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The following specimen of his punning Latin is addressed to an orchard-pilferer:-
Pennsylvania Pilgrim, and other poems / Part 6 From Volume I of ...
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Facebook Twitter Pinterest Carson Kressley should be held responsible for the insufferable punning.
The Guardian
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My deep ancestors included elaborate punning in the highest of their literary forms.
I'm not hanging noodles on your ears and other intriguing idioms...
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And now, please apply your punning powers to the gent above.
The Guardian
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The Groucho Marx influence is certainly evident in Stallman's lifelong fondness for punning.
Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software
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Some censure this conversation of St. Gregory as a piece of low punning.
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints. J...
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The topless women of page three used to be accompanied by groanworthy punning.
BBC
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Though I love fun, eternal jesting, buffoonery, punning absolutely kills me.
The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1
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The monument to Sir Nicholas Pelham (1559) has an oft-quoted punning verse-
Seaward Sussex: The South Downs from End to End
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Your punning will turn her into a mass of jelly.
Cara mia - book one of the immortyl revolution
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We have specimens of his fondness for this nomenclative punning subscribed to his portrait:
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 13, November, 1858 / A Maga...
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Has it other excuse for being besides punning and fooling?
Shakespeare Study Programs; The Comedies
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The tenuousness and corniness of the punning is supposed to be part of the appeal.
BBC
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For the king hated all witticisms, and punning especially.
The Light Princess
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Well, it was fun getting here, in spite of all the punning and peppermint perkiness.
The Guardian
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