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punster|ˈpʌnstə(r)|
[f. pun v.1 + -ster.]
A professed maker of puns; one addicted to or skilled in punning. (In first quot., a quibbler.)
1700Congreve Way of World v. i, To be a Theme for legal Punsters, and Quiblers by the Statute:..to discompose the gravity of the Bench. 1711Addison Spect. No. 61 ⁋2 That learned Monarch [James I] was himself a tolerable Punnster. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xiv. III. 471 [Jane, the King's Professor of Divinity] was so unfortunate as to have a name which was an excellent mark for the learned punsters of his University. Several epigrams were written on the double-faced Janus. 1965W. S. Allen Vox Latina 107 In the sixteenth century we find punsters identifying e.g. habitaculum with French habit à cul long. 1978Detroit Free Press 16 Apr. 14c/1 The latest from the most outrageous living punster, bad jokester and molester of the language.
Hence ˈpunstress (nonce-wd.), a female punster.
1825Scott Fam. Lett. (1894) II. xxi. 279 Anne..is a decided punstress. |