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puns

/pʌnz/

Translations

punnoun

puns

/pʌn/

The comedian's pun about the bakery being on a roll had the audience laughing.

Le calembour du comédien sur la boulangerie « en pleine forme » a fait rire le public.

jeu de mots

His fondness for pun made every conversation a playful challenge.

Son goût pour le jeu de mots faisait de chaque conversation un défi ludique.

Synonyms

play on words

double entendre

punverb

puns

punned

Past Simple

punned

Past Participle

punning

Gerund

/pʌn/

faire des calembours

He loves to pun on words, often making everyone laugh with his clever wordplay.

Il adore faire des calembours sur les mots, faisant souvent rire tout le monde avec ses jeux de mots ingénieux.

Additional translations

jouer sur les motsExpression plus générale ; convient quand le jeu sur les sons ou les sens est implicite.

Synonyms

play on words

double entendre

punnoun

A humorous play on words, often involving a word with multiple meanings or words that sound similar but have different meanings.

The comedian's pun about the bakery being on a roll had the audience laughing.

The art, practice, or habitual use of puns; punning.

His fondness for pun made every conversation a playful challenge.

punverb

To make a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings.

He loves to pun on words, often making everyone laugh with his clever wordplay.