calembourn.

/kalɑ̃bur//ˈkaləmbʊər//ˈkalambʊər/

Forms: Also calembourg.

Etymology: French. (According to Chasles, quoted by Littré, from the name of ‘the Abbé de Calemberg, a witty personage in German tales’, i.e. Pfarrer Wigand von Theben, known as the ‘Pfaff von Kahlenberg’ or Priest of Kahlenberg in Lower Austria.)

A pun.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > wit, wittiness > wit with words > [noun] > play on words, pun

allusion1550

nick1561

paronomasia1577

paronomasy1592

quiblin1605

quibblea1627

quiblet1627

clinch1629

quibbling1633

clink1634

clench1638

pun1644

conundrum1645

whim1652

pundigrion1673

jeu de mots1823

calembour1830

Tom Swifty1963

paronym1982

1830 Fraser's Mag. 2 237 All British-born..people..father their calembourgs on Rogers.

1876 A. S. Palmer Leaves from Word-hunter's Notebk. 167 A mere calembour on the resemblance between the word ebrius and Ebraeus.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	calembour
释义	calembourn. /kalɑ̃bur//ˈkaləmbʊər//ˈkalambʊər/ Forms: Also calembourg. Etymology: French. (According to Chasles, quoted by Littré, from the name of ‘the Abbé de Calemberg, a witty personage in German tales’, i.e. Pfarrer Wigand von Theben, known as the ‘Pfaff von Kahlenberg’ or Priest of Kahlenberg in Lower Austria.) A pun. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > wit, wittiness > wit with words > [noun] > play on words, pun allusion1550 nick1561 paronomasia1577 paronomasy1592 quiblin1605 quibblea1627 quiblet1627 clinch1629 quibbling1633 clink1634 clench1638 pun1644 conundrum1645 whim1652 pundigrion1673 jeu de mots1823 calembour1830 Tom Swifty1963 paronym1982 1830 Fraser's Mag. 2 237 All British-born..people..father their calembourgs on Rogers. 1876 A. S. Palmer Leaves from Word-hunter's Notebk. 167 A mere calembour on the resemblance between the word ebrius and Ebraeus. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1830
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