Hypertext Webster Gateway: "punning"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Pun \Pun\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Punned}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Punning}.]
To make puns, or a pun; to use a word in a double sense,
especially when the contrast of ideas is ludicrous; to play
upon words; to quibble. --Dryden.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
punning
n : a humorous play on words; "I do it for the pun of it"; "his
constant punning irritated her" [syn: {pun}, {wordplay},
{paronomasia}]
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