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† punˈdigrion Obs. rare.
[app. related, either as earlier form or derivative, to pun n.1, q.v.]
A pun, a quibble.
1676R. L'Estrange Counsellor Manner's Last Legacy xvi. (1710) 23 Quibble, pun, punnet, pundigrion, of which fifteen will not make up one single jest. [Cf.c1680–90W. Blundell in ‘Cavalier's Note Book’ (1880) 185 Quibble, pun, punnet, pundigrion... I find these words in Counsellor Manners' last legacy, printed 1676.] 1812Southey Omniana I. 103 Many..will lose their friend rather than their jest, or their quibble, pun, punnet or pundigrion. 1820― Wesley I. 493 Thomas Adams had as honest a love of quips, quirks, puns, punnets, and pundigrions as Fuller the Worthy himself. |