Words similar to pun
Example sentences for: pun
How can you use “pun” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
to execute or commit (esp. an offence, a poem, or a pun)
In short (excuse the pun), for one reason or another users in the UK would be better served by a better dictionary of abbreviations than this; US users should be alerted to the fact that the text is British, unedited for American spelling: for `decagramme, decalitre, decametre' read `decagram, decaliter, decameter.
The name of gallium is not only a pun on the name of its discoverer, Lecoq de Boisbaudran, but a patriotic tribute to his native country—Latin Gallia , Gaul, France.
This paragraph by Allan Simmons is an alphabetic pun:
I have challenged him with Pope's line of the pun as the lowest form of wit, but he says not if they are appropriate.