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punster

NOUN
  1. someone overly fond of making puns

How To Use punster In A Sentence

  • Indeed, the punsters might come over and kick your wrasse. Making Light: Boomdeyada boomdeyada boomdeyada boomdeyada
  • Drogo, ever the clever Dothraki punster, says that he'll give Viserys "a golden crown that men shall tremble to behold" and then coronates the would-be king by pouring molten gold over his head. Game of Thrones Postmortem: Harry Lloyd on Viserys' Golden Crown
  • Charles Lamb, a notorious punster, explained that the pun is “a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.” Punditry
  • Jesus, if the Bible is to be believed, was an inveterate punster. IBM's Watson wins! First Jeopardy! -- next, bad puns?
  • Stephen Leacock said that the inveterate punster follows conversation as a shark follows a ship. IBM's Watson wins! First Jeopardy! -- next, bad puns?
  • In Maureen Dowd's New York Times Jan. 30 puff piece " No Axe to Grind " about the departure from the White House of senior presidential adviser David Axelrod, she notes that although he is not tech savvy, "The avid punster offered a parting pun at the 8:30 a.m. meeting [in the White House] — urging everyone to 'plow forward' on a plan for genetically produced [sic] alfalfa. Making Political Hay With Genetically Modified Alfalfa
  • Marino abounds in puerile conceits; but they are not far-fetched, like those of Donne and Cowley; they generally lie on the surface, and often consist of nothing more than a mere play upon words; so that, if to be a punster is to be a metaphysician, Marino is a poetical Heraclitus. Lives of the English Poets
  • As an inveterate punster myself, I know the danger this poses to the human race. IBM's Watson wins! First Jeopardy! -- next, bad puns?
  • Creative wordplay can enhance literacy, turn a punster into a pundit and lead us back to a primal recognition of the power of the word to impact the quality of our world. The Language You Use Frames the Way You Think
  • It's all in the timing, and a good punster waits for the exact moment to be left to his own devises. Punditry
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