Punning
336. Punning
- adnomination
- Obsolete, the act of wordplay; punning. Also called agnomination , annomination .
- equivocality, equivocacy
- the state or quality of being ambiguous in meaning or capable of double interpretation. —equivocal, adj.
- equivoque, equivoke
- 1. an equivocal term or ambiguous expression.
- 2. a play upon words; pun.
- paronomasia
- 1. Rhetoric. the use of a word in different senses or the use of words similar in sound for effect, as humor or ambiguity; punning.
- 2. a pun. —paronomastic, adj.
- punnology
- the study of puns and punning. —punnologist, n.
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