| 单词 | to play on words |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto play on (also upon) words (also the word) 1. intransitive. to play on (also upon) words (also the word): to pun; to make a play on words.Cf. quot. 1597 at sense 12b. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > common sense > be witty with words [verb (intransitive)] to play mid wordseOE gameOE snip-snap1593 to play on (also upon) words (also the word)1600 quip1908 1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice iii. v. 41 How euery foole can play vpon the word. View more context for this quotation 1683 D. A. Whole Art Converse 125 They play often upon words. 1734 T. Cooke Andrian i. iv. 95 (note) Our Poet often plays upon Words; and this Sort of Wit we find in the 23d Verse of the Prologue. 1861 T. Wright Ess. Archæol. II. xxiii. 231 The wit or ingenuity of our Anglo-Saxon forefathers was chiefly exerted in playing upon words. 1876 G. O. Trevelyan Life & Lett. Macaulay I. iii. 134 He did not play upon words as a habit. 1978 P. Barolsky Infinite Jest iv. 97 On giving the cardinalate to the very young Innocenzo Cibo, Pope Leo, who himself was made a cardinal at an early age by Pope Innocent VIII, played on words when he remarked, ‘What I received from Innocent, I repay to Innocent.’ 2004 Times of India (Nexis) 6 June ‘The member from Bolpur will not get much chance to speak,’ Vajpayee remarked in his inimitable style playing on the word ‘Bol-pur’. < as lemmas |
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