punnoun [ C ]
uk/pʌn/us/pʌn/a humorous use of a word or phrase that has several meanings or that sounds like another word:
She made a couple of dreadful puns.
This is a well-known joke based on a pun: "What's black and white and red (= read) all over?" "A newspaper."
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Humour & humorous
- a bundle of laughs idiom
- blackly
- bring
- bundle
- crack
- don't make me laugh! idiom
- funny ha-ha or funny peculiar? idiom
- gallows humour
- hysterical
- jocular
- josh
- killing
- lambent
- laugh
- sarcasm
- satirize
- tickle
- witty
- wordplay
- you've got to laugh idiom
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punverb [ I ]
uk/pʌn/us/pʌn/-nn-to make a pun
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Humour & humorous
- a bundle of laughs idiom
- blackly
- bring
- bundle
- crack
- don't make me laugh! idiom
- funny ha-ha or funny peculiar? idiom
- gallows humour
- hysterical
- jocular
- josh
- killing
- lambent
- laugh
- sarcasm
- satirize
- tickle
- witty
- wordplay
- you've got to laugh idiom
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