| 单词 | pun-hater |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspun-hater pun-hater, pun-making, pun-trap, nouns; pun-admiring, pun-proof, pun-provoking adjs., etc. ΚΠ 1721 N. Amhurst Terræ-filius (1726) II. 204 It is no wonder that a punning monarch produc'd a race of punning and pun-admiring liege subjects. 1748 W. Shenstone School-mistress xi, in R. Dodsley Coll. Poems (ed. 2) I. 252 The tufted Basil, pun-provoking Tyme. 1830 G. Colman Random Rec. I. ix. 297 The intolerant Pun-hater. 1839 ‘D. I. Moriarty’ Husband-hunter III. x. 202 [He] frequently laid pun-traps and quibble-springes of which he took advantage. 1884 W. E. Henley in T. H. Ward Eng. Poets III. 230 A good and cheerful talker, whose piety was not always pun-proof. 1958 Language 34 172 ‘A pen/pencil that one sharpens’ is doubly pleasing to pun-loving Hawaiians. 1992 Mod. Painters Spring 54/2 There should be a return to dualist concepts and thence to the sort of visual pun-making which characterises the consciously naif escapism of pre-war. 2004 Time Out N.Y. 9 Dec. 71/3 Their writing is stylish, brazenly arch, pun-drunk and studded with quirky but apt turns of phrase. < as lemmas |
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