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What is pun?
The pun, is a form of word play that suggests two or more meanings, by exploiting multiple meanings of words, or of similar-sounding words, for an intended humorous or rhetorical effect.
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The pun, is a form of word play that suggests two or more meanings, by exploiting multiple meanings of words, or of similar-sounding words, for an intended humorous or rhetorical effect.

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Pun is a noun, which means the humorous use of a word or phrase so as to emphasize or suggest its different meanings or applications, or the use of words that are alike or nearly alike in sound but different in meaning; a play on words.
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the usually humorous use of a word in such a way as to suggest two or more of its meanings or the meaning of another word similar in sound.

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A joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words which sound alike but have different meanings.
Added 257 days ago|3/21/2023 12:27:25 AM
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