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Punning meaning
present participle and gerund of pun
Example sentences (17)
Much to the police department’s surprise, people too brought out their ace punning game online and reacted to the unusual event.
But even setting the prejudice to one side, Falafel’s joke is a pretty tired bit of punning.
Speaking of events, Saturday is also when the Boys and Girls Club are hosting their annual eggs-elent (sorry, can’t resist punning) Easter hunt, where volunteers are setting up treats to find, a bouncy castle and crafts.
You might call this interleaving of book and reader postmodern, but there is more here than a posh writer’s punning.
On Facebook, users have been punning and cracking jokes.
He enjoys dark and punning humor and painful penetration to himself and others.
He is known for his constant in-joking and punning on the intersection between socialist ideologies and computer programming, as well as other fields.
In early 1964, Benny and Christina joined "Elverkets Spelmanslag" ("The Electricity Board Folk Music Group"), the name was a punning reference to their electric instruments.
In general, oxymorons can be divided into expressions that were deliberately crafted to be contradictory and those phrases that inadvertently or incidentally contain a contradiction, often as a result of a punning use of one or both words.
In its later years, the show's wealth of silliness, smut and punning was drawing audiences of up to a thousand people for its recordings.
It was named as part of a compromise by the original authors, punning on gnu (the animal) and newplot. citation Official source code to gnuplot is freely redistributable, but modified versions thereof are not.
I wonder, then, if the punning could be extended throughout the production.
Music Groups *The Judybats, an alternative rock band from Knoxville, Tennessee, took their name from a song written by a friend of theirs, which contained the line "punch me with a judybat" in a punning allusion to Punch and Judy shows.
Plautus might seem more verbose, but where he lacks in physical comedy he makes up for it with words, alliteration and paronomasia (punning).
Runtime * Due to its unconstrained expressiveness, low level C++ language features (e.g. unchecked array access, raw pointers, type punning ) cannot be reliably checked at compile-time or without overhead at run-time.
Sumerian cuneiform and Egyptian hieroglyphs were originally based on punning systems, and the Roman playwright Plautus was famous for his puns and word games.
The Crying of Lot 49 also continues Pynchon's strategy of composing parodic song lyrics and punning names, and referencing aspects of popular culture within his prose narratives.