Pun vs. Paronomasiac — What's the Difference?

The pun, also known as paronomasia, is a form of word play that exploits multiple meanings of a term, or of similar-sounding words, for an intended humorous or rhetorical effect. These ambiguities can arise from the intentional use of homophonic, homographic, metonymic, or figurative language.

One addicted to word play or puns.

A play on words, sometimes on different senses of the same word and sometimes on the similar sense or sound of different words.

To make puns or a pun.

(transitive) To beat; strike with force; to ram; to pound, as in a mortar; reduce to powder, to pulverize.

(intransitive) To make or tell a pun; to make a play on words.

A joke or type of wordplay in which similar definitions or sounds of two words or phrases, or different definitions of the same word, are deliberately confused.

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To pound.

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.

To persuade or affect by a pun.

A play on words which have the same sound but different meanings; an expression in which two different applications of a word present an odd or ludicrous idea; a kind of quibble or equivocation.

A humorous play on words;

Make a play on words;