Associations to the word «Punning»

Wiktionary

PUN, verb. (transitive) To beat; strike with force; ram; pound, as in a mortar; reduce to powder.
PUN, noun. A joke or type of wordplay in which similar senses or sounds of two words or phrases, or different senses of the same word, are deliberately confused.
PUN, verb. To make or tell a pun; make a play on words.

Dictionary definition

PUN, noun. A humorous play on words; "I do it for the pun of it"; "his constant punning irritated her".
PUN, verb. Make a play on words; "Japanese like to pun--their language is well suited to punning".

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin