pun in the PONS Dictionary

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Thus, by a sort of punning process, the gentleman becomes a gentle-man.
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The name has also been described as a pun on, "gei", which means skill or art.
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The lyrics to the song are all puns for musical terminology.
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Among those mentioned are: (boil), (filter), (skewer or char), (a pun on steam, the q here actually means to cry), and (to pan-fry using oil).
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Many of these destinations are fictitious or imaginative, names often being puns on real locations, and some were featured in episodes of the show.
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The title of the cartoon is an obvious pun on the term hairdo, another word for a hairstyle.
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Performers often twist the meanings of words for comic effect, or play on an unintentional pun.
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He is known for his constant in-joking and punning on the intersection between socialist ideologies and computer programming, as well as other fields.
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As a pun, it expressed that objective in a phrase that sounds similar to "born again", a term for spiritual rebirth.
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In this book, poems use puns to demonstrate connections between animals and people.
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