NOUN
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a humorous play on words
I do it for the pun of it
his constant punning irritated her
How To Use paronomasia In A Sentence
- Lane held the poetry untranslatable because abounding in the figure Tajnís, our paronomasia or paragram, of which there are seven distinct varieties,433 not to speak of other rhetorical flourishes. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- I'm reviewing important terms, including "paronomasia," which is the cocktail party word for "pun. Archive 2007-02-01
- It's just the adjective from paronomasia which means any form of word-play, like a pun. CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
- Well, seems it's a factitious word, formed from a union of paronomasia and mania...' Dalziel ground his teeth and Pascoe hurried on. CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
- More than most linguistic modes, such as paronomasia and malapropism, quasi malediction has diametric force. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 1
- But then again, Tom Stoppard (who cowrote the film with Terry Gilliam) always seemed to prefer paronomasia to his fellow men anyway. Joshua David Stein: WALL-E and The Fall of Man
- Similarly, Japheth is in the blessing by an equally apt paronomasia, associated with the analogous root pathah, "be open"; Hifil imperfect jussive yapht, "cause to be open" -- "grant ample territory. Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1
- I'm sitting here trying to decide whether a particular specimen of paronomasia is to be considered polyptoton or antanaclasis. I love the classical roots of education, but...
- I'm sitting here trying to decide whether a particular specimen of paronomasia is to be considered polyptoton or antanaclasis. Archive 2008-02-01
- Warden, “grounded on a vain play upon words — a most idle paronomasia.” The Monastery