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culture. Puns have a long history in writing. For example, the Roman playwright Plautus was famous for his puns and word games. A homophonic pun is one...

(1946-1975). PUNS was during its time the only legal party within the territory of Francoist Spain, except the ruling Falange Española. PUNS was allowed...

(November 10, 1971 – February 7, 2000), better known by his stage name Big Pun (short for Big Punisher), was an American rapper. Emerging from the underground...

The valley of Punial (Urdu: پونیال) is situated in Ghizer District in the Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan, where hundreds of thousands of tourists visit annually...

Puning (simplified Chinese: 普宁; traditional Chinese: 普寧; pinyin: Pǔníng; Teochew: Pou2 leng5), officially Puning City, is a county-level city located in...

Look up pun, pu·n, Pun., pún, PUN, or PuN in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A pun is a figure of speech that plays on words that are similar to each...

Puñal is a city in Santiago Province. Puñal became a rural section of the municipality of Santiago de los Caballeros in 1937, comprising the spots: Guayabal...

Area 51 is a highly classified United States Air Force (USAF) facility within the Nevada Test and Training Range in southern Nevada, 83 miles (134 km)...

In literature, a portmanteau, also known in linguistics and lexicography as a blend word, lexical blend, or simply a blend, is a word formed by combining...

speaks another language. There are what appear to be Biblical bilingual puns. In Exodus 10:10, Moses is warned by the Egyptian Pharaoh that evil awaits...

A visual pun is a pun involving an image or images (in addition to or instead of language), often based on a rebus. Visual puns in which the image is at...

Mahabir Pun (Nepali: महावीर पुन, pronounced [maːbir pun]; born 22 January 1955) is a Nepalese politician, researcher, teacher, social entrepreneur and...

Punal may refer to : Punal Nadu, one of the minor Tamil kingdoms Puñal This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with...

main family, "賈" (Jiǎ) puns with "假" meaning "fake" or "false" while the name of the other main family in the story, "甄" (Zhēn) puns with "真" meaning "real"...

aspect, and the transposition the second aspect. As a result, transpositional puns are considered among the most difficult to create, and commonly the most...

for detecting puns in the Japanese language. A possible application for assistance in language acquisition is described in the section "Pun generation"...

Ressler, Karen (July 24, 2015). "Viz Media Licenses Inio Asano's Goodnight Pun Pun Manga". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on July 25, 2015...

Dipprasad Pun CGC, CGC (Nepali: दिपप्रसाद पुन, born 1979 or 1980) is a Nepalese sergeant of the Royal Gurkha Rifles (British Army), who was decorated...

In computer science, type punning is a common term for any programming technique that subverts or circumvents the type system of a programming language...

Puning Temple (simplified Chinese: 普宁寺; traditional Chinese: 普寧寺; pinyin: Pǔníng Sì; lit. 'Temple of Universal Peace'), may refer to: Puning Temple (Hebei)...

Havildar Kabir Pun magar, IOM, was a Nepalese soldier in the British Indian Army who received the Indian Order of Merit (1st class) for his gallantry...

homophonic puns in Mandarin Chinese. Tom Swifties A form of humorous writing where adverbs are chosen to reflect the nature of the situation in a punning way...

Barsaman Pun, also known by his nom de guerre Ananta, is a Nepali communist politician and former Minister for Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation. Pun has...

series of sexual puns, including "country matters" (similar to "cunt"). The title of Shakespeare's play Much Ado About Nothing is a pun on the Elizabethan...

and tone. Typically set in imaginary worlds, fantasy comedy often involves puns on, and parodies of, other works of fantasy. The subgenre rose in the nineteenth...

Hollywood-inspired nicknames, most starting with the first letter or letters of the location and ending in the suffix "-ollywood" or "-wood", have been...

Lawrence Robert "Pun" Plamondon (April 27, 1945 – March 6, 2023) was an American activist, known for being a 1960s left-wing activist who helped found...

the bearer's name (or, less often, some attribute or function) in a visual pun or rebus. The expression derives from the latin cantare (to sing). French...

Game devotes a chapter to puns in dreams, including verbal puns, reversal puns, visual puns, puns involving proper names, puns involving literal pictures...

using any spoken words, which requires some conventional gestures. Puns and visual puns were and remain common. A charade was a form of literary riddle popularized...

Chinese Communist Party (also known as the paramount leader). She is from Puning, Guangdong, and is the daughter of former Chinese diplomat Ke Hua. In 1979...

lost". Homer relates it to various forms of this verb in references and puns. In Book 19 of the Odyssey, where Odysseus's early childhood is recounted...

Francisco "Patxi" Puñal Martínez (born 6 September 1975) is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder. The vast bulk...

writer and stand-up comedian. His style of humour is one-liners involving puns delivered in a deadpan manner. Gary Edith Delaney received degrees in Economics...

Serge Pun (Burmese: သိမ်းဝေ, Theim Wai; Chinese: 潘繼澤; pinyin: Pān Jìzé; born 1953 in Rangoon, Burma) is a Burmese businessman of Sino-Burmese descent...

the listed names unusual due to their containing pop culture references or puns. In the early days of genomics, genes were often given creative names upon...

in two different senses. Antanaclasis is a common type of pun, and like other kinds of pun, it is often found in slogans. I'm not a businessman, I'm a...

Pun Ngai (Chinese: 潘毅) is a Chair Professor in the Department of Cultural Studies at Lingnan University and professor emeritus in the Department of Sociology...

Kakkanadu Kuda Nadu Kuttanadu Malai Nadu Puzhi Nadu Erumai Nadu Panri Nadu Punal Nadu Sida Nadu Thenpandi Nadu Tondai Nadu Tulu Nadu Venadu Some other Nadus...

Beloved O. Henry Pun-Off". Austin Monthly Magazine. Retrieved 2025-05-19. Awalt, Gracie (May 8, 2019). "Puns Very Intended at the O. Henry Pun-Off". Austin...

debuting on The Beatnuts single "Off the Books", guest appearing on Big Pun's album Capital Punishment and signing to Atlantic Records. In addition, Cuban...

Raymond Pun (Chinese: 潘宏; pinyin: Pān Hóng) is an academic and research librarian at the Alder Graduate School of Education. He was the elected president...

IPA: [tɕaiʔpʊ̀ɰ̃ pʰəjá]) is a pagoda in Bago, Myanmar. Most notably, Kyaik Pun Pagoda is the home to the Four Seated Buddha shrine, a 27 m (89 ft) statue...

pain and pleasure are mixed, perhaps the definitive recipe for all punning' (Puns, p. 127). Brachin, Pierre (1985). The Dutch language: a survey. Brill...

Anthony Pun Yiu-ming (Chinese: 潘耀明) is a Hong Kong filmmaker. Making his debut as a cinematographer in 1994, Pun is known for his collaborations with director...

an English comedian. His style of humour is based on one-liners involving puns delivered in a deadpan and slightly neurotic style. Jones has had various...

Pun is a surname. It may be: A surname of the Magar people in Nepal An English surname of unexplained origin A Cantonese spelling of the Chinese surname...

the web, shared only with himself and his partner. He named it Wordle as a pun on his surname. Later he shared it with his relatives, where it "rapidly...

Punishment is the imposition of an undesirable or unpleasant outcome upon an individual or group, as a response for breaking some norm or rule. The term...

The Party of Labour of Albania (Albanian: Partia e Punës e Shqipërisë, PPSh), was the ruling and sole legal party of Albania during the communist period...

1967) is an English comedian, actor, writer and presenter best known for his puns and other one-liners and his role on the TV sitcom Not Going Out (2006–2012...

Tul Bahadur Pun Magar VC VC (Nepali: तुल बहादुर पुन मगर; 23 March 1923 – 20 April 2011) was a Nepalese Gurkha recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest...

speaking in puns and witticisms with an exaggerated smile. The content of his conversations, however, was not bizarre or random. He would work in puns and jokes...

Most of the jokes revolve around mutual misunderstandings, double-talk, puns and other verbal gags. In 1933, Yoshimoto Kogyo, a large entertainment conglomerate...

article on "no pun intended", but its sister project Wiktionary does: Read the Wiktionary entry "no pun intended" You can also: Search for No pun intended in...

Mukherjee, calling for a cleaner India. Featuring a humorous website with puns, an educational video game Toilet Trek, and the mascot "Mr. Poo," the campaign...

police-related puns, before being handcuffed by an officer, who informed him that he had exceeded the "legal limit for puns" and was being sent to the "pun-itentiary"...

classmate Hitohito Tadano. The names of the majority of the characters are puns or plays on words, usually related to their most defining character trait...

Pan Sukhum (Thai: ปั้น สุขุม), better known by the noble title Chaophraya Yommarat (เจ้าพระยายมราช, 1862 – 30 December 1938) was regent to the King Rama...

Tao Poon (Thai: เตาปูน, RTGS: Tao Pun, lit. 'cement kiln') is a neighbourhood in Bangkok's Bang Sue district. It is named after the country's first cement...

traditional Chinese: 大垻; pinyin: Dàbà) is a town under the administration of Puning, Guangdong, China. As of 2020[update], it administers Daba Residential Neighborhood...

arms, in which it bears a branch of laver seaweed in its beak as a further pun on the name "Liverpool". King John founded the borough of Liverpool by royal...

subject? – Owlgebra." The jokes are a mix of ones sent in by fans and popular puns identified through research. In 2022, Laffy Taffy held a joke writing contest...

eighth month (bā-bā) is a pun for dad (爸爸; bàba). Taiwan, therefore, sometimes refer to 8 August as "Bābā Holiday" as a pun for "Dad's Holiday" (爸爸節)...

Suzie Hwang Pun is an American bioengineer, the Washington Research Foundation Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Washington and the director...

technique, careful structuring and prose of an experimental nature—replete with puns, parodies, epiphanies and allusions—as well as its rich characterisation...

question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Burmese script. Smin Pun-Si (Mon: သၟိင်ပန်စီ; Burmese: သမိန်ပွန်စည်, Burmese pronunciation: [θəmèiɰ̃...

published compilations, such as Today's list of 330 "corny one-liners, dumb puns and groan-worthy dad jokes" in October 2025. While not so-named, the genre...

Mittell MBE (born 16 May 1947), better known by the stage name Owen Money (a pun on "owing money"), is a British musician, actor, comedian, and radio presenter...

originally came from Kalamazoo, Michigan, first met his South Korean wife, Pun Im (Im Pun; Korean: 임분), in 1986 when he was stationed in Montana. After Im became...

Li Bun-hui (Korean: 리분희; born December 29, 1968) is a former table tennis player from North Korea who competed in the 1992 Summer Olympics. She won eight...

Mandarin profanity cào nǐ mā (肏你妈), which means "fuck your mother". Homophonic puns are commonly used in Chinese language as silly humor to amuse people, and...

fruits, vegetables, and various other food and objects by using jokes and puns which are sometimes crude. Lyons, Dan (January 9, 2012). "The Most Annoying...

"100%" is the second single by American rapper Big Pun, released posthumously from his second and final studio album Yeeeah Baby (2000). "100%" debuted...

Hpapun Township (Burmese: ဖာပွန်မြို့နယ်, MLCTS: hpa.pwan.mrui.nay; Pwo Eastern Karen: ဖာပံင်ကၞင့်; S'gaw Karen: ဖးဖူကီၢ်ဆၣ်; also spelt Papun Township...

spoof of Baywatch, with much of the comedy based on sexual double entendres, puns, innuendo and the like. The lead character, Notchibald "Notch" Johnson, is...

"Lewis Tan's Family Business". Television Academy. Retrieved April 19, 2026. Pun, Catherine (January 7, 2025). "Cover Story: Lewis Tan On His Leap Into A...

surreal humor and fast-paced slapstick comedy, including visual and verbal puns, gags, running jokes, and satirical sharp overtones. Released by Paramount...

of humor that can be non-borrowed are puns. But puns are supposed to be unfunny and the proper response to a pun is to groan rather than laugh. Multivac...

is a live EP by the British heavy metal band Iron Maiden. The title is a pun of Deep Purple's live album Made in Japan. There are at least two different...

celebrations since the franchise began in 1977. The date originated from the pun "May the Fourth be with you", from the Star Wars catchphrase "May the Force...

See also piphilology § Japanese. In Japanese, puns are referred to as dajare (駄洒落, 'bad jokes'). Like puns in English, dajare may be considered dad jokes...

The strip also abounds in nonsensical dialogue, non-sequiturs, and puns. The puns and silly pictures on the wall was the feature that provoked the most...

rapper Fat Joe and mentorship from his close friend Big Pun, and thereafter guest appeared on Pun's 1998 album Capital Punishment. He is also known for being...

spoiled child. Baum introduced pun-dependent humor into the Oz books from the start of the series; Neill carried punning farther than any other Oz writer...

are prime and 11 − 5 = 6 {\textstyle 11-5=6} . The term "sexy prime" is a pun stemming from the Latin word for six: sex. If p + 2 or p + 4 (where p is...

Sonnet 18, are love poems addressed to a man (the "Fair Youth"), and contain puns relating to homosexuality. However, other scholars have criticized this view...

employees. Instead, an off-screen narrator explains the process, often with puns and analogies. Each episode features three or four products divided by segments...

attended Shivaji's durbar (court) Kavi Bhushan was known for the use of puns in his poetry.[citation needed][original research?] Shivaa Bhushan Shivabavani...

Narayan Singh Pun (Nepali: नारायणसिंह पुन; died February 21, 2008, in New Delhi, India) was a Nepalese politician. Prior to starting his political career...

Serge Pun & Associates (also SPA Group) is a major Myanmar-based conglomerate, engaged in 8 core sectors with 25 subsidiaries, involved in automobiles...

calling a speed walker wearing yellow shorts "a disgrace to the man race" (a pun on the double meaning of the word "race") and firing Snickers bars at the...

creative homemade masterpieces that often involve the show's affinity for puns. Past costumes include Linda dressed as a "Cher-iff," the iconic singer with...

Aragorn's epithet "Estel" which is stated to mean "Hope"; Tolkien then freely puns on this in a sustained way throughout the novel with phrases like "hope dwelt...

the latter being notable for sampling "BBL Drizzy". The album title is a pun on the United States motto, "In God We Trust". All tracks are written by...

"Rapunzel" (/rəˈpʌnzəl/ rə-PUN-zəl; German: [ʁaˈpʊnt͡sl̩] ; French: Raiponce or Persinette) is a German fairy tale most notably recorded by the Brothers...

professionally as Chris Rivers and formerly Baby Pun, is an American rapper. He is the son of the late rapper Big Pun. Emerging from the underground hip hop scene...

disastrous fallout of their relationship. The movie engages in word play and puns, and rhapsodises on the juxtaposition of old and new in Spain, as well as...

Tim Vine are examples of current comedians who deploy numerous puns. Jokes based on puns tend to be very quick and easy to digest, which sometimes leads...

Pun Tao Kong (Chinese: 本頭公; pinyin: Běn tóu gōng) or Lao Pun Tao Kong (Chinese: 老本頭公; pinyin: Lǎo běn tóu gōng; lit. 'traditional senior chief') is a deity...

Sagar Pun (Nepali: सागर पुन) (born 1 March 1993) is a Nepalese professional cricketer. An All-rounder, Sagar is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm...

usually name themselves based on the original band's name (sometimes with a pun), or on one of their songs or albums. In 1997, the British journalist Tony...

Sutatta Udomsilp (Thai: สุทัตตา อุดมศิลป์; nicknamed PunPun (Thai: ปันปัน), born 5 June 1997) is a Thai actress. She is best known for her roles in Last...

Retrieved 2024-04-09. "PunBB". punbb.informer.com. Retrieved 2015-11-24. "PunBB 1.4.6 has been released". Retrieved 11 January 2023. "PunBB". punbb.informer...

Yu Pun-hoi (Chinese: 于品海; born 1958), commonly known as P H Yu, is a Hong Kong entrepreneur in the information technology, cinema, culture and media industries...

September 9, 2009. "Dead and Gone: Tupac, Eazy-E, Notorias BIG, Aaliyah, Big Pun, Big L: Video". Amazon. September 9, 2009. "Eazy-E". Allmusic. Retrieved...

until retiring on November 11, 2010. He is known for his frequent use of puns and his comical "absent-minded professor" appearance, which consists of an...

language is any expression using a mixture of languages, particularly bilingual puns or situations in which the languages are otherwise used in the same context...

Zein Pun (Burmese: ဇိတ်ပွန် Burmese pronunciation: [zeɪʔ pʊ̀ɰ̃]; 1295–1330) was king of Martaban for one week in 1330. Of commoner background, Zein Pun rose...

Fengxi Mgmt Dist Raoping County Jieyang Rongcheng District Jiedong District Puning city Huilai County Jiexi County Yunfu Yuncheng District Yun'an District...

series by Spider Robinson uses "some of the worst puns known to man.... building up to the anticipated pun with skill and flair." Isaac Asimov used the song...

(Thai: กุดข้าวปุ้น, pronounced [kùt kʰâːw.pûn]; Northeastern Thai: กุดข้าวปุ้น, pronounced [kǔt kʰàːw.pûn]) is a district (amphoe) in the northern part...

students or school faculty members. Many of them also have names which are puns, reflecting some of their key physical features or character traits. Rentaro...

ISBN 9781610594707 Steve Roth, Hamlet: The Undiscovered Country, 2009 Hamlet's Puns and Paradoxes Archived 2007-06-13 at the Wayback Machine, Click Notes Shaaber...

returned and beat 2nd time finalist Julian Lee to the title. Rob Thomas' puns included: "When Leicester won the league, my mum bought a candle to celebrate...

language and on wordplay such as puns, oxymorons, and anagrams. He has been dubbed "the Wizard of Idiom," "Attila the Pun," and "Conan the Grammarian." His...

storytelling, but many also employed acrobatics, juggling, telling jokes (such as puns and imitation), and performing magic tricks. Much of the entertainment was...

(input and output) AUX: — an auxiliary device. In CP/M 1 and 2, PIP used PUN: (paper tape punch) and RDR: (paper tape reader) instead of AUX: LST: — list...

the Billboard 200, and at No. 39 on the UK Albums Chart. The album's title puns on the name of the Rock-Ola jukebox company. The group released their first...

titular character, Orange, who always annoys others by telling crude jokes and puns and making annoying noises until their certain demises. The Annoying Orange...

Scordato (a pun on the Italian word, meaning both "Forgotten" and, when referred to a musical instrument, "Out of tune") is a 2023 Italian comedy-drama...

but the trappings and the suits of woe". At times, he relies heavily on puns to express his true thoughts while simultaneously concealing them. Pauline...

in the Asterix comics. Dogmatix is a pun on the words dog and dogmatic. In the original French, his name is a pun on the expression idée fixe ('fixed idea')...

Grimm Love (original German title Rohtenburg, a pun on roh "raw" and Rotenburg) is a 2006 psychological horror film inspired by the Armin Meiwes cannibal...

Fool!"). The series is known for its cultural humor consisting of Japanese puns, pop culture, and fourth-wall breaking. Saban Entertainment picked up the...

dinosaur crosses "because chickens didn't exist yet". Some variants are both puns and references to the original, such as "Why did the duck cross the road...

lover. In the Greek text, the names of the trees cited by the elders form puns with the sentences given by Daniel. The first says they were under a mastic...

founder Larry Graham (formerly of Sly and the Family Stone). The name is a pun on New York City's Grand Central Terminal, often colloquially called Grand...

and Bevan were the group's only consistent members. The group's name is a pun that references both electric light and "light orchestral music", a popular...

actual people were removed from the decor. The menu, which initially featured puns based on people and popular phrases from music, television, and movies was...

Magreb. pp. 148–149. ISBN 84-96640-31-0. "Primer enfrentamiento entre el PUNS y el POLISARIO" (PDF) (in Spanish). Hoja del Lunes (Cádiz). 1975-07-07. Archived...

of the (heavenly) dwelling", and Baʿal zəvuv could have been a derogatory pun used by the Israelites. In Arabic translations, the name is rendered as Baʿl-zabūl...

Nanda Kishor Pun Magar (Nepali: नन्दकिशोर पुन; born 23 October 1966), also known as Nanda Bahadur Pun, is a Nepalese politician who served as the second...

by the Rolling Stones featuring live recordings from 1965. The title is a pun on the swamp blues song "I Got Love If You Want It" by Slim Harpo; the Stones...

a celebrity ruining their career with scandal. River crab (河蟹, héxiè) – Pun on héxié (和谐) meaning "harmony". Online Chinese term for Internet censorship...

professionally as Remy Ma, is an American rapper. Discovered by the late rapper Big Pun, she came to prominence for her work as a member of Fat Joe's group, Terror...

himself a slow-witted figure of fun. Joke books containing a mix of wordplay, puns, situational humour, and play with taboo subjects like sex and scatology...

somewhere in London: Edd, an artist obsessed with Coca-Cola and telling puns; Tom, a jaded nihilist and alcoholic who lacks visible eyeballs (it is constantly...

Retrieved 18 May 2017. "秋元順子、古希に得意のダジャレ 「あまり"コキ"使わないでください」" [Junko Akimoto used puns she was good at on Koki: "Please don't push me around too much."]. SANSPO...

potash mining and processing, a major industry in the area. The names are puns of Kali (shorthand for Kalisalz, German for "potash") on "Monte Carlo" and...

which the name of the island of Nantucket creates often ribald rhymes and puns. The protagonist in the obscene versions is typically portrayed as well-endowed...

The discography of Big Pun contains two studio albums, one compilation album and 19 singles (including 13 as featured artist). "Big Punisher > Charts...

Wookiee and encyclopedia, a pun on the name of Wikipedia, and its logo portrays the incomplete second Death Star, as a visual pun on Wikipedia's incomplete...

Random House. Cerf was also known for his own compilations of jokes and puns, for regular personal appearances lecturing across the United States, and...

Bibcode:1983SysEn...8..263E. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.1983.tb00482.x. S2CID 85193490. "Puns". Curiosities of Biological Nomenclature. Retrieved 9 February 2021. v t...

path sentence or syntactic ambiguity, and in word play as an example of punning, double entendre, and antanaclasis. The point of the example is that the...

short was also removed months later. The dialogue was said to be[by whom?] "pun–laden", with the moral being that friends can take various forms. Said to...

figurative language, such as "Your team can't run! You run like honey on ice!" Puns and other wordplay are commonly used. Trash-talk has become a debatable term...

his crimes usually have an egg motif to them; he also includes egg-related puns in his speech and uses various egg-themed weapons. Additionally, Egghead...

Rare and Manuscript Collections at Cornell University. Ginsberg published puns in the Newark Star Ledger under the heading "Keep an O'Pun Mind". He often...

Tao Poon station (Thai: สถานีเตาปูน, RTGS: Sathani Tao Pun, pronounced [sā.tʰǎː.nīː tāw pūːn]) is a MRT station in Bangkok, located above Tao Poon Intersection...

theatrical performance onstage, largely aiming to emphasise wordplay and puns that are otherwise lost to the modern ear and to create an accent that does...

Sai Ying Pun is a station on the MTR network. The station is located between HKU and Sheung Wan on the Island line. It serves the neighbourhood of Sai...

of which describe the burning bush. The use of seneh may be a deliberate pun on Sinai (סיני), a feature common in Hebrew texts. In the narrative, an angel...

Ying Pun is an area in Sai Wan, on Hong Kong Island, in Hong Kong. It is administratively part of the Central and Western District. Sai Ying Pun is built...

in songs like "Off the Books" (with The Beatnuts and Big Pun), "Toe to Toe" (featuring Big Pun), "Shakedown", "Quiet Storm" and various of his other tracks...

redirects for discussion to help reach a consensus.› The Puning Temple (Chinese: 普宁寺; pinyin: Pǔníng Sì; lit. 'Temple of Universal Peace'), commonly called...

pronounced [kʰà(ː)w pûn]); also known as Lao royal vermicelli curry soup or Lao laksa and sometimes spelled kapoon, khao poun or khao pun) is a popular national...

Billboard Hot 100 and No. 1 on the Adult Contemporary chart. The title is a pun on "lunacy". "So Long" – 5:20 (Rick Roberts) "Just Remember I Love You" –...

hit "Whatcha Gon' Do", credited mostly to Big Pun, who died of a heart attack in 2000. After Big Pun's death, his longtime partners Cuban Link and Triple...

Jeffrey Jones. It is an American and Yugoslav co-production. The title is a pun on "Pennsylvania 6-5000", a song made famous by Glenn Miller. Jack Harrison...

2016; her death) Gabor's divorces inspired her to make numerous quotable puns and innuendos about her marital and extramarital history. She commented:...

talent. The books have been noted for their extensive use of wordplay and puns. Anthony has stated that he has kept the series going as long as he has (currently...

suicide bomber sings "No Arabs, no terrorist attacks." The song contains puns and references to Israeli society. The chorus contains the line: קוראים לי...

21:30 – 22:00. The episode titles are, with exception of the final episode, puns on military ranks. Blackadder and Baldrick, or one of them, have also appeared...

Virgin Records, and Columbia Records. The label's flagship artist was Big Pun. After being disappointed with the previous album sales at Relativity Records...

the UK rock band Half Man Half Biscuit (HMHB), in 1985. The album's title puns on that of the 1968 song "Back in the U.S.S.R." by The Beatles: referring...

humorist, stand-up comedian and clown. He is best known for his sophisticated puns and surreal humour. Devos was born in Mouscron, Belgium, close to the French...

appears several times in the film. It is only the first of many visual puns in the film—a seeming display of the film's sheer visual modernity, as intended...

restaurant is a pun. In the Korean term for "botanic garden", 식물원; sikmulwon, sik ("living") has a homophone that means "eat". This pun has been rendered...

So Lo Pun (Chinese: 鎖羅盆) is a village in the northeastern New Territories of Hong Kong, within the Plover Cove Country Park. It is located northwest of...

Lilo Wanders the host of the German TV sex/erotic show Wa(h)re Liebe (a pun on true love and commodity love) on VOX. On 22 December 2022, as part of...

Ying Pun (Chinese: 營盤) is a village in Sheung Shui, North District, Hong Kong. Ying Pun is a recognized village under the New Territories Small House Policy...

entendre Language game List of puzzle video games Phono-semantic matching Puns Puzzles Rebuses – picture puzzles representing a word Verbal arithmetic Word...

the different sound. For example, puns normally involve homophones, but in the case of heterophonic (or imperfect) puns, the two words sound different,...

referred to as bumping one's "funny bone". This name is thought to be a pun, based on the sound resemblance between the name of the bone of the upper...

McDonald's to Microsoft. The series' sense of humor is characterized by puns and farcical storylines. Roger Wilco is depicted as an underdog who saves...

Twilight Zone, The Newlydead Game, and Wheel of Fortune. The film also contains puns such as "Vampires of the Caribbean", "Elvis has left the body", and "Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow"...

notoriously difficult to translate from language to language; particularly puns, which depend on specific words and not just on their meanings. For instance...

Lampung or Lampungic (cawa Lampung) is an Austronesian language or dialect cluster with around 1.5 million native speakers, who primarily belong to the...

Creber in 1994. The album is best known for its title track, which uses puns such as "It's a phone with appeal!" (a peel) and nonce words like "bananular"...

rebus, derived from the game of the same name Emoji Verbal arithmetic Visual pun Boutell, Charles, Heraldry Historical & Popular, London, 1863, pp. 117–120...

There is speculation that the spelling Virgilius might have arisen due to a pun, since virg- carries an echo of the Latin word for "wand" (uirga), Virgil...

Japan (pronounced /ˈdʒeɪˌpæn/ JAY-pan or /ˈdʒeɪpən/ JAY-pun) is an unincorporated community in southwest Franklin County, in the U.S. state of Missouri...

through his letterbox. Crap Jokes – a diverse range of verbal and visual puns or one-liners, usually deliberately corny or old-fashioned. The best known...

"Star Wars" puns into 40-second forecast". Women in the World. 18 December 2015. Retrieved 29 August 2018. "Can You Count All The 'Star Wars' Puns In This...

originally created by the Japanese group ASCII. The Japanese name, Tsukūru, is a pun mixing the Japanese word tsukuru (作る), which means "make" or "create", with...

Capital Punishment is the debut studio album by American rapper Big Pun, released by Loud Records and Fat Joe's Terror Squad Productions, being the first...

film features fast-paced slapstick comedy, including many visual and verbal puns and gags. The film is based on the character portrayed by Nielsen in the...

Samantha's mischievous cousin, Serena, under the pseudonym Pandora Spocks (a pun on Pandora's Box). Bewitched became a ratings success (it was, at the time...

name and last name combine the names for two cardinal directions to form a pun. The given name North is used for both males and females in the United States...

starring Douglas Barr, Royal Dano, and Ariana Richards. The film's title is a pun on the classic video game Space Invaders. The space armada from Mars fights...

China must undergo. In the video, the character pooh for you (小熊为你, The Puns of Winnie the Pooh in Chinese), who performs with Namewee, wears a yellow...

Punjab (/pʌnˈdʒɑːb/ pun-JAHB; Panjabi: pañjāba, pronounced [pəɲˈd͡ʒaːb] ) is a state in northwestern India. Forming part of the larger Punjab region of...

Phipun (Thai: พิปูน, pronounced [pʰí.pūːn]) is a district (amphoe) in the northern part of Nakhon Si Thammarat province, southern Thailand. Neighboring...

barking. The American press dubbed her Muttnik (mutt + suffix -nik) as a pun on Sputnik, or referred to her as Curly. Her true pedigree is unknown, although...

by a financial industry run amok. Reich, who is 4-foot-11 (and prone to puns, as evinced by previous books like 'Locked in the Cabinet' and 'I’ll Be Short')...

Lipps Inc. (/ˈlɪpsɪŋk/ LIP-sink, a pun on the phrase "lip sync") was an American disco and funk group from Minneapolis, Minnesota. The group is best known...

oyakochūdon, possibly referring to different sizes. Several other Japanese dishes pun on the parent-and-child theme of oyakodon. Tanindon (他人丼), literally "stranger...

known as The Tigers of Money (Japanese: マネーの虎, romanized: manē no tora), a pun on "The Tiger of Malaya" (マレーの虎, marē no tora), which was the nickname of...

heterographs, e.g. to, too, and two. Homophones are often used to create puns and to deceive the reader (as in crossword puzzles) or to suggest multiple...

Santi Francesi (Italian for 'French Saints', a pun on the members' last names), previously known as The Jab, is an Italian musical duo from Ivrea, consisting...

The former has mixed reviews, with the Liverpool Daily Post describing the puns as bad, but that Cooper's writing had a "knowing adolescence". In contrast...

honorific Ji is pronounced identically to the letter G is used extensively in puns. This is sometimes deliberately exploited in consumer marketing, such as...

Dulcinea (an allusion to illusion), and the word quixote itself, possibly a pun on quijada (jaw) but certainly cuixot (Catalan: thighs), a reference to a...

Public Health. 2025. Retrieved 7 February 2025. "Leguminous Plant Puns | A list of puns related to "Leguminous Plant"". punstoppable.com. Retrieved 7 April...

8, 2026). "William Shatner worried Super Bowl ad using his name for poop puns was crappy idea after childhood bullying". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved...

falling apart? The name in the title "戈師奶" (Jyutping: gwo1 si1 naai5) is a pun on "哥斯拉" (Jyutping: go1 si1 laai5), which is Godzilla as translated by Hong...

Turku language West Greenlandic Pidgin Yokohama Pidgin Japanese Bilingual pun – Pun that utilizes words or phrases from multiple languages Camfranglais (Cameroon) –...

the 2009 novel The Scarpetta Factor, which points out that the underlying pun is similar to "Caligula", which means "little boot" in Latin. The novel features...

Humour, also, is important: scholar Molly Mahood identifies at least 175 puns and wordplays in the text. Many of these jokes are sexual in nature, especially...

and in some cases mayonnaise or fried egg. The name porilainen may be a pun on the word purilainen ('burger'). While it literally means "something originating...

feast with food puns". Usatoday.com. Retrieved September 27, 2013. Noveck, Jocelyn. "Review: 'Cloudy 2' _ gorgeous visuals, cheesy puns - Movies". Boston...

States is the preppy style and in France is bon chic bon genre. The term is a pun based on references to Sloane Square, a location in Chelsea, London, famed...

Every category has numerous untranslatable jokes that rely on linguistic puns, wordplay, and the Russian language vocabulary of foul language. Below, (L)...

Giacchino's Strange, Pun-Filled Movie Scores". Archived from the original on January 5, 2016. "Composer Michael Giacchino on Star Trek puns and the wrath of...

mathematical result Zorn's lemma are unlikely to understand the joke. The joke is a pun on the name of this result. Ethnic or religious groups may also have in-jokes...

Hong Kong. Western District covers Shek Tong Tsui, Kennedy Town, Sai Ying Pun, parts of Lung Fu Shan. Most of the districts lie within the statutory limits...

toad-themed parody of pop culture science fiction filled with puns. Star Wars is referenced with many puns on iconic Star Wars characters including Jake Skyjumper...

can be rare, and thus PUNEs are more likely to exist than regular Nash equilibria. Although there are no known cases where PUNEs do not exist, no simple...

he truly is on a hero's quest." To this end, his name is often used as a pun. His co-worker and best friend Ando once called him "Super-Hiro" in jest...

humor, puzzle elements, themes and characters borrowed from various legends, puns, and memorable characters, creating a 5-part series in the Sierra stable...

collection Buy Jupiter and Other Stories, where Asimov explains his love of puns. It is an example of a shaggy dog story, as indicated by the title ("ShahGui...

Intension Intensional definition Loaded language Metacommunicative competence Pun Semantic differential Semantic property Subtext Peter A. White (27 March...

perhaps overzealous, interest in nautical puns. For example, Jack often repeats one of Stephen's spur-of-the-moment puns regarding dog-watches. At a dinner,...

form of Genesis 3 is also shaped by its vocabulary, making use of various puns and double entendres. The expulsion from Eden narrative begins with a dialogue...

Puning Temple (simplified Chinese: 普宁寺; traditional Chinese: 普寧寺; pinyin: Pǔníng Sì; lit. 'Temple of Universal Peace') is a Buddhist temple located on...

7, 1952, and features Bugs Bunny and Marvin the Martian. The title is a pun on the film title The Hasty Heart. Marvin the Martian (here referred to as...

State, U.S.A. Creosote, a character in Terry Pratchett's books whose name puns on Croesus Mr Creosote, a fictional character in Monty Python's The Meaning...

British Artists who emerged in 1988. Her works frequently employ visual puns and bawdy humour by incorporating photography, sculpture, collage and found...

supported the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party government since 2014. The term is a pun on the name of Indian prime minister Narendra Modi and has become a common...

appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Her name is a pun on the word "dinosaur". Dinah Soar was created by John Byrne, and first appeared...

of highways and related bridges, he was dubbed the 'Colossus of Roads' (a pun on the Colossus of Rhodes), and, reflecting his command of all types of civil...

received troop monikers of "The Big Dead One" and "The Bloody First" as puns on the respective officially sanctioned nicknames. It is currently based...

urinary bladder and part of the urethra. PUNLMP is pronounced pun-lump, like the words pun and lump. As their name suggests, PUNLMPs are neoplasms, i.e...

strength of the protagonists' friendship. She enjoyed the bread-related puns sometimes uttered by characters but acknowledged that "they're not likely...

"Still Not a Player" is a song by American rapper Big Pun, released on March 28, 1998 as the second single from his debut album Capital Punishment (1998)...

Pun Kwok-shan, MH, JP (Chinese: 潘國山; born 1961) is a Hong Kong politician. He is vice-chairman of the New People's Party and member of Civil Force. He...

"higher than High". A characteristic trait of biblical poetry is the use of puns. Agag also refers to the Amalekite king who survived King Saul's extermination...

current (DC) through a PMOS logic gate when the so-called "pull-up network" (PUN) is active, that is, whenever the output is high, which leads to static power...

the form of dictionary definitions, they are similar to transpositional puns, but often much less complex and easier to create. Under the name Uxbridge...

granted Goku teleportation. Many Dragon Ball characters have names that are puns, which are associated with related characters. For example, Bulma and her...

and stated "If you loved Chalo, giving Bheeshma a chance is a no-brainer (pun intended). Just don’t go expecting something even remotely sane or novel...

Assaragoa, Asharigoua), meaning "cutlass" in Onondaga. This word was chosen as a pun on Howard's name, which sounds like Dutch houwer meaning "cutlass" (similar...

Today as "Chekhov's borg", the jug was labeled with various Shakespearean puns at each performance, including "to borg or not to borg" and "William Shakesborg"...

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about the story in question. Unlike the Cryptkeeper, who frequently makes puns revolving around death and macabre subjects, Chrome engages more in sexual...

Michael Bentine. The scripts mixed ludicrous plots with surreal humour, puns, catchphrases and an array of bizarre sound effects. There were also light...

Blåhaj as part of an advertising campaign for its Tsim Sha Tsui branch, punning the location as "Tsim Shark Tsui". Photographs of Blåhaj circulated on...

television channel Pink TV that she helped start in 2004. The title of this show puns on Le Genou de Claire, a French film known in English as Claire's Knee. Chazal...

various non-existent customers. The gag names given by the pranksters were puns and homophones for often offensive phrases. Recordings of the calls were...

artists, such as Tyler in 1995 and rapper Cuban Link in the song "Letter to Pun" from the album Chain Reaction. The song is a reworking of the main title...

Ljubljana. Retrieved 21 October 2015. "Mark Gatiss: The Man with the Golden Pun". The Independent. 2 November 2008. Archived from the original on 7 December...

– the exact count is not recorded. The puns include a play on the Maxwell House Coffee slogan, standard puns, and yet another reference to the "H" joke:...

narratives often are self-referential and metafictional. Word play, such as puns are used to connect ideas, such as the "Magnificrab, Indeed" with Bach's...

The Diamond Brothers series has a more humorous slant through the use of puns, pop culture references and absurd situations. The entire series was re-issued...

voice (created by Bowie and studio engineer Gus Dudgeon) delivers several puns on the word "gnome". At the time, "The Laughing Gnome" failed to provide...

on August 1, 1942, and satirizes events of World War II. The title is a pun on dictator. A pair of farm ducks eagerly await the hatching of their duckling...

certain "SpongeBob-related words" in its lyrics. Lyrically, "Big Guy" includes puns about the ocean and references to SpongeBob SquarePants, such as in the lyrics...

of the humour coming from slapstick and mistaken identity, in addition to puns and word play. It has been adapted for opera, stage, screen and musical theatre...

thing Mock Turtle Soup is made from", said the Queen. Carroll enjoyed such puns on Victorian fashions and etiquette, and showed this frequently. The drawing...

romanized: Mor. Utopiya, IPA: [ˈmor ʊˈtopʲɪjə], lit. 'More. Utopia' – a pun on Thomas More's Utopia and the Russian word for "plague, pestilence" (мор))...

process of downloading and installing software. The name is an extension on a pun of NuGet (from "nougat") "because everyone loves Chocolatey nougat". The...

"the" and cerveza translates as "beer". The genus contains several other puns. "GlobIZ search". Global Information System on Pyraloidea. Retrieved 2014-07-15...

of Kuruman. It takes its name from the farm on which it was laid out; a pun on 'hot as hell', referring to the weather when the farm was surveyed and...

of Scotland's legendary monsters. "Morag", a Scottish female name, is a pun on the name of the loch. Reported sightings date back to 1887, and numbered...

2020. Retrieved July 14, 2020. "Eugene Mirman: Burger On A Sesame Seed Pun". NPR.org. January 20, 2017. Archived from the original on January 23, 2017...

Grant and Kristin Scott Thomas. The film's French title, Lunes de fiel, is a pun on the French phrase "lune de miel", meaning "honeymoon". It is based on...

sycophancy was well known in the army, and he acquired the nickname 'Lakeitel', a pun derived from Lakai ("lackey") and his surname. Hermann Göring's description...

Jaan-Mati Punning (13 March 1940 – 21 November 2009) was an Estonian geochemist, paleogeographer and ecologist. His work focused on isotope geochemistry...

comic strip world. Goscinny's skill with puns, made famous in Astérix, is also evident in Iznogoud. Most of the puns in the original French make little sense...

such as Oasis, Blur, and the Spice Girls were at the forefront. The term—a pun on the title of the British patriotic song "Rule, Britannia!"—reflects renewed...

Sweden on 7 February 2003, directed by Josef Fares. The name itself is a pun on pronouncing the English word "Cops" with a Swedish accent. The film concerns...

telegraph line connecting most of the British colonies in Africa. It is a visual pun on the Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World...

and puns; poetry is difficult to translate because of its reliance on the sounds (for example, rhymes) and rhythms of the source language; puns, and...

be derived from "Jimmy", an old cant term for a crow, which is based on a pun for the tool "crow" (crowbar). Before 1900, crowbars were called "crows"...

rely on some kind of symmetry, and they can often be interpreted as visual puns. Although the concept is older, the term "ambigram" was coined by Douglas...

Wings. The song was named after Paul and Linda McCartney's Land Rover, a pun on "Hell on Wheels". The song was recorded at the EMI Studios in Lagos, Nigeria...

eccentric. His trademarks were his jolly, avuncular manner, his fondness for puns, and his bold, sometimes garish wardrobe. Thanks to over 20 years' worth...

label. The label signed numerous artists such as Wu-Tang Clan, Davina, Big Pun, Mobb Deep, Prodigy, Krayzie Bone, The Beatnuts, M.O.P., Tha Alkaholiks,...

Margaret" (Child 47). Contemporary English-language riddles typically use puns and double entendres for humorous effect,[citation needed] rather than to...

by the use in everyday conversation of certain words, theological terms, puns and catchphrases, in ways that may be only comprehensible within the context...

hip-hop music as well as publishing film soundtracks. The label's name is a pun on the name 'hippo'. The name "Hip-O Records" is a play on the word "hip"...

1960s-style go-go dance invented for the Batman television series. The name is a pun on the then-popular dance the Watusi. The Batusi is performed by making a...

wrote over 100,000 lines of code for the OS. HolyC (formerly C+), possibly a pun on Holy See, is a middle ground between the C and C++ programming languages...

is a 1982 Czechoslovak horror film directed by Juraj Herz. The name is a pun on Upír Nosferatu, or Nosferatu the Vampire. Doctor Marek (Jiří Menzel) is...

fact unknown and such reports may have stemmed from various jeux de mots (puns) made up afterward by his political opponents. According to the legend, Steinheil...

proposes to her. The series makes heavy use of Japanese mythology, culture, and puns. It was adapted into two anime television series that aired on Fuji TV affiliates...

Reprise, he founded his own record label and named it "Vic Tim" Records, as a pun on the combination of his wife's name with that of his own. Tiny Tim, a biography...

a character named "Tom Sweet", voiced by Walter Tetley, where Tom Swifty puns were frequent, such as, "'Ah, now for some shut-eye,' said Tom, retiringly...

introduced for 1971. At introduction, exterior paint colors were named with puns, including "Anti-Establish Mint", "Hulla Blue", "Original Cinnamon", "Freudian...

(what a cop does) and a city in Poland. General: Antanaclasis – Type of pun Bison bison bison – Subspecies of bisonPages displaying short descriptions...

sensitive structures, the (conscious) patient burst into a manic flight of puns. He exhibited typical sound associations, and with every word of the operator...

CO's donut flavors are either named using eponyms or word plays such as puns. One example is, Alcapone, the most popular donut flavor, inspired by the...

Regg'Lyss was a French reggae group (French-language pun between "reggae", "glisse" and "réglisse"). The group was established in 1989 in Montpellier...

names Mac and Tosh in the 1960s TV show The Bugs Bunny Show. The names are a pun on the surname "Macintosh". They are characterized by an abnormally high...

reasons, to include symbolizing military victories in the Crusades, as a pun on the bearer's name in the canting arms of Morese, Negri, Saraceni, etc...

Happiness (calligraphy) (囍), symbolizing good-luck and happiness Homophonic puns in Standard Chinese, of which upside-down fu is one Wikimedia Commons has...

name is a pun on the brand Dunkin' Donuts. He briefly replaces Sammy as show host for Foodtopia and as the owner of the Aesop's Cables (a pun on Aesop's...

Vices, I saw enough. Now, do not be suspecting me of a pun, I entreat." Edmund ignores the crude pun and its implied impropriety, replying: "It is a noble...

The National Unity Party (Portuguese: Partido da Unidade Nacional, PUN) was a political party in Guinea-Bissau. The party was established by Idrissa Djaló...

it into a roaring success after three days. The play's title might be a pun on Tirso de Molina's earlier play El Burlador de Sevilla (The Trickster of...

Just Desserts, a pun on just deserts, may refer to: Just Desserts (film), a 2004 TV film by Kevin Connor Top Chef: Just Desserts, an American reality...

affectations of "a boozy vertigo" marred by Waits' vague lyrics and ill-advised puns on an album that is "too self-consciously limited" in mood. "It demands to...

Roger Ebert coined the term "Wunza Movie" to describe this subgenre, a pun on the phrase "One's a..." that could be used to describe the contrasts between...

& Singh 2007, pp. 334–342. Berga 2006, p. 1304. Dhungel & Pun 2009, p. 210. Dhungel & Pun 2009. Mirza 2004. Roger Revelle; V. Lakshminarayan (9 May 1975)...

The Handbook of Educational Theories. ISBN 978-1-61735-867-8.[page needed] Pun, Min (23 May 2014). "The Use of Multimedia Technology in English Language...

staffed by mostly indolent and inept old wizards. The university's name is a pun on the Invisible College, and many aspects of the university are references...

utilize various humour forms, code-switching puns are a form of humour which is quite specific to Panará. These puns arise from the interplay of Panará and...

Travel. Retrieved 11 January 2021. Berube, Pierre H. (2018). "Bilingual Puns in 'The Lord of the Rings'". Mythlore. 37 (1). Article 15. Clark Hall, J...

flamboyant commander of the expedition. He has a great love of chimpanzee puns. Jeff Daniels as Zartog, an alien tyrant who enslaves the planet Malgor....

as many puns, such as "He drove his expensive car into a tree and found out how the Mercedes Benz!", as possible. Punderdome involves both "Pun Battle...

.cat (spelled out in Catalan: punt cat [ˈpuŋ ˈkat]) is a sponsored top-level domain intended to be used to highlight the Catalan language, developed by...

review, in which he says, "[Stoppard] delights in sounds and meanings, in puns, in flights of words that soar and swoop as if in visual display. On the...

understand the joke. A pun consists of a deliberate confusion of similar words or phrases for humorous effect, whether humorous or serious. A pun can rely on the...

mother's maiden name and her parents were Norwegian immigrants. As "a conscious pun", Wiggum was designed to look like a pig. Hank Azaria first based his voice...

number of puns employed in the work Joyce argued to Frank Budgen that "after all, the Holy Roman Catholic Apostolic Church was built on a pun. It ought...

had created his own homemade zine, featuring a varied collection of jokes, puns, musings, and art. A 16-inch (41 cm) Ernest talking doll based on the TV...

Ling-ling-chat (Homophonic pun of '007' in Cantonese) Anita Yuen as Lee Heung-kam Law Kar-ying as Tat Man-sai (Homophonic pun of Leonardo da Vinci in Cantonese)...

vocalist and songwriter Ilya Lagutenko (Russian: Илья Лагутенко). The name is a pun on Mumintroll, the children's books by Tove Jansson, translated into Russian...

pop/rock singer Younha, released on October 5, 2005. The album title is a pun on her Korean name, 고윤하 (Go Yoon-ha). Houkiboshi - Album Mix Version (ほうき星...

popular for their whimsical nature, myriad characters, and liberal use of puns. Apart from the first book, every title turns on the similarity between the...

relates to its focus on users uploading unpolished photos, with it being a pun of the term B-reel. According to the app's description on Apple's App Store...

French title is a pun: it literally means "vinegar chicken," but "poulet" is also French slang for "cop." The English title is also a pun on coq au vin....

bridge. Replete with references to Americana and revolution, the title is a pun on Cole Porter's "Begin the Beguine". Schumer, Ben (February 26, 2009). "It...

backstage" during Hamrick's time as a ballerina. The novel's title is a pun based on the first position in ballet. In writing First Position, Hamrick...

referred to her free-wheeling lifestyle with plenty of boyfriends (while also punning on Lady Jane Grey). A passage from Gertrude Stein's Miss Furr & Miss Skeene...

double-LP compilation A Nice Pair (1973), which featured an array of visual puns. Another example was the 1974 album There's the Rub for Wishbone Ash using...

States nation since 1881," before going on to further flatulence-related puns: "Dark hints by Franklin's biographers have tainted the air behind its back...

Tao Poon (Thai: เตาปูน, also spelled Tao Pun) is a neighbourhood in Bangkok. Tao Poon or Tao Pun may also refer to these places in Thailand: Tao Poon...

you'll pardon the pun" mid-conversation, when there had, in fact, been no pun uttered. The second character, puzzled, would say, "What pun?" and the first...

Bosch's paintings often represent visual translations of verbal metaphors and puns drawn from both biblical and folkloric sources. Art historians have pointed...

the refined language of aristocratic salons, periphrases, hyperbole, and puns on the theme of gallant love. The movement was similar to the Italian marinism...

could not change to a frown." Puns have been regarded as a sign of superior education and Baum uses the Woggle-Bug's puns repeatedly to highlight his conceitedness...

television sitcom series broadcast by ABS-CBN. The title of the series is a title pun of the 1990 film Home Alone. Directed by Johnny Manahan, Victor de Guzman...

accommodations are seen as less severe than many other prisons. Club Fed is a pun on the "Club Med" chain of all-inclusive resorts. In Canada, the Joliette...

instead allude to Hamnet's death. In this sonnet, there is also an implied pun on "sun" and "son": "Even so my Sunne one early morne did shine / With all...

single "Australiana", a spoken word piece which is filled with Australian puns. His humor often draws on his Jewish background. A tall man, standing at...

curve. A hatband at the base is common. The name may derive from a humorous pun – the hat "never had a nap, and never wants one". The best-known portrayals...

before. BoJack's signature tropes — the background visual jokes, the animal puns, the brutal moments of sadness — remain reliably consistent, but turns the...

Chico DeBarge, Big Pun and Eightball. Two music videos were made: "Don't Stop" (directed by Diane Martel) and "On Point" f/Big Pun & Eightball. The Village...

place names, usually those where an episode is set, form the basis of the puns, for example "To Kilimanjaro Bird" is a combination of the novel To Kill...

Emilia inventing a miraculous invention in an obvious deus ex machina, sexual puns and innuendos, and Jack and Emilia's ongoing romantic tension. Bruce Campbell...

Retrieved April 21, 2013. Kroll, Laura (June 1, 2015). "The Many Prehistoric Puns on Michael Giacchino's Jurassic World Soundtrack Are Dino-myte". Bradley...

Japanese believe that the bad luck associated with some ages derives from puns that it is possible to make with their numerals. The numeral 33, for example...

topic. Further complicating matters is ‘KingPun’, an anonymous artist who vandalizes the school with pun-based graffiti. Paige is widely suspected by...

2004. Its titles are available on ROM cartridges called "Smartridges", a pun on the system's educational nature. Several variants of the V.Smile console...

he doesn't play bass. We have among us a person that stirs and then, no pun intended, sells drama." In September 2022, Kowalczyk announced that he would...

disappear or alter its behavior when one attempts to study it. The term is a pun on the name of Werner Heisenberg, the physicist who first introduced the...

being sold for US$432,500 during a Christie's auction. The name Belamy is a pun based on Ian Goodfellow, inventor of GANs. In French, "bel ami" means "good...

Chiquito in the 1988 comedy film Gorio Punasan, Rebel Driver, the title being a pun on his name which literally translates as "Wipe Gorio". Parodied in the 1987...

from an English pun, as "tsu" (通, tsū; meaning Expert) when spoken aloud sounds similar to the English word "two". Compile used similar puns for Puyo Puyo...

derived by reversing the name Allium. Names may also be derived from jokes or puns. For example, Neal Evenhuis described a number of species of flies in a genus...

group members and solo acts, without an audience. The name of the show is a pun on the phrase "limousine service"; the Korean pronunciation of "limousine"...

the Red Stockings or the Nationals after their home, Hilltop Park, and a pun on their owner's name, Gordon's Highlanders, referencing the famous Scottish...

reigning King of Thailand, visited the stadium to witness Bua Wat-Im beat Pun Sri Pharakanchai on points over five rounds." Banomyong, Pridi....

of the Order of the Ermine in 1488. Alternatively, the ermine could be a pun on Cecilia's surname: The Ancient Greek term for ermine, or other weasel-like...

Kong St. Stephen's Girls' College in Sai Ying Pun, Hong Kong St. Stephen's Church College in Sai Ying Pun, Hong Kong Saint Stephen's College in Queensland...

Smith & Pun 2006, pp. 13–17, 218, G-6 Oldroyd 2006, pp. 101, 103, 104 Smith & Pun 2006, p. 331 Smith & Pun 2006, pp. 325–26, 329 Smith & Pun 2006, p. 327...

learns valuable lessons, he finds a love of learning in a story full of puns and wordplay, such as exploring the literal meanings of idioms. In 1958,...

2021. Retrieved April 10, 2021. Watkins, Greg (February 7, 2009). "Big Pun Remembered, New Documentary On The Way". AllHipHop. Archived from the original...

Tony Sunshine. The late rappers Big L and Big Pun appear together on the song titled "Bring 'Em Back". Big Pun was originally a member of the group and some...

housing advertisements, is short for "all modern conveniences" and is a pun on the band's association with the mod revival. The cover is a visual joke...

obscene poet who lived in the 18th century: Mat is also used in humor or puns by juxtaposing innocent words so that the result will sound as if an obscene...

musical sensibilities. The album contained lyrics that relied heavily on puns and word play, which Linnell appreciated. In particular, he recalls "Lines...

sun. — Hamlet, act 1, scene 2. When Claudius invokes their kinship, Hamlet puns on kin—kind; and when Claudius invokes a weather metaphor for a gloomy disposition...

alone without needing any help. It also features excessive puns and it is because of this that puns saw a boom in use in elementary school students. In spite...

Two years later the ship was relaunched as Seawise Giant. "Seawise", a pun on "C.Y.'s", was used in the names of other ships owned by C.Y. Tung, including...

including euphemism, the principle of economy, specificity and bilingual punning. (The following examples come from the same source.) The English counterpart...

the original on 10 September 2022. Retrieved 10 September 2022. "Ananda Pun". "Indian Readership Survey (IRS) 2012 — Quarter 2" (PDF). HANSA Research...

Public Health". The sentence is Dog Latin; that is, it is a Latin–English pun with only a mock translation. The first word varies between illegitimi and...

sleeping. This derivation, coincidentally or not, connects with the English pun on "nod". Josephus wrote in Antiquities of the Jews (c. AD 93) that Cain...

directed by Chuck Jones. The short was released on May 9, 1942. The title is a pun on draft horse and the draft (conscription). A farm horse sees a poster that...

matter is based upon erotic-themed songs with double entendres and humorous puns. The genre has been called by several media outlets the successor of funk...

Coop Himmelb(l)au (a pun meaning Coop Sky Building and Coop Sky Blue) is an architecture, urban planning, design, and art firm founded in 1968 by Wolf...

Post, the "flavor isn't really Leninade's selling point. It's the Soviet puns stamped to the bottle's label". The slogans on the bottle make fun of Soviet...

Gainsbourg's lyrics, the words are filled with double meanings, wordplay, and puns. The title can be translated as "wax doll, rag doll" (a floppy doll stuffed...

combat polio. The name "March of Dimes" was coined by Eddie Cantor as a pun on the newsreel series The March of Time. After funding Jonas Salk's polio...

to Guanyin, including Shaolin Monastery, Longxing Temple, Dule Temple, Puning Temple, Nanhai Guanyin Temple, Kwan Im Thong Hood Cho Temple, Shitennō-ji...

ill-considered actions lead to their own deaths. Segment titles commonly featured puns or ironic wordplay relating to the manner of death. Each episode of 1000...

Antony and Pussyfoot. It was released on December 20, 1958. The title is a pun on cat food. Marc Antony, guarding a construction site, encounters Pussyfoot...

north-east Brittany in France. Despite being derisively called a "Norse Opera" (a pun on 'Horse Opera,' common term for Westerns used by critics of the time) by...

strip in the UK comic The Beano. It is about a boy, named Calamity James (a pun on Calamity Jane), who has disastrous luck. He first appeared on 1 November...

learn more about Yitzhak (he was once a drag queen called "Krystal Nacht", a pun on Kristallnacht), how he met Hedwig in a Croatian drag bar, and we see his...

T.D. (for The Dolphin, but also a pun because T.D. is short for touchdown) is the official mascot of the National Football League's Miami Dolphins. The...

creature ran in black and white under the headline "The Hound of Bonacville", a pun on the name Bonackers, which refers to the natives of East Hampton, and The...

pun on Plato) and Crime and Punishment, by Fido Dogstoyevsky (a pun on Fyodor Dostoyevsky). Gromit's various possessions make extensive use of puns:...

the dismantling of concepts. Early on, Leikola noticed his fondness for puns and parodies when reading Mad magazines. Leikola has also stated that he...

Kalapani, School of Oriental and African Studies Dhungel, Dwarika Nath; Pun, Santa Bahadur (2014), "Nepal-India Relations: Territorial/Border Issue with...

spoofs Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, containing "harmless visual and verbal puns". Robin Hood: Men in Tights debuted at number six at the weekend box office...

Amar Singh Pun is a Nepali politician belonging to Nepali Congress and a former Minister of state for Irrigation of Nepal. He is the former member of...

song on their 2007 album On the Fly. The expression was paraphrased by a punning New York Times headline Erin go broke, written by economist Paul Krugman...

Twitter bot is an endless game of Jeopardy where the winners are good at puns". The Verge. Retrieved August 24, 2020. "[holding back tears] The final song...

Pentatonix talk competition, their future album, and (of course) Nick Lachey's puns". Inside TV. Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on June 28...

Remains,'Tis Man Must Go." Bud Powell's composition "Tempus Fugue-it" is a pun on the phrase. The phrase's full appearance in Virgil's Georgics is: Time...

win", and the French aller, "to go". The phrase is also intended to be a pun of Italian cantare, "to sing", and of native Japanese katare (語れ), "to talk"...

cuts federal ministries to 18; forms standalone Science Ministry; Mahabir Pun calls it fulfillment of long-standing demand". TechPana. Retrieved May 15...

journal of 1942 made numerous references to the Japanese as Nips, even making puns such as "there's a nip in the air". This phrase was later re-used for Hirohito's...

and New Territories Hong Kong Sai Wan Kennedy Town Shek Tong Tsui Sai Ying Pun North of Victoria Road, Rock Hill Street, Belcher's Street and Des Voeux...

professor Joseph Weizenbaum and the futurist Raymond Kurzweil. The title is a pun on the computer hardware phrase "Plug and Play". Computer experts around...

Flintstones' penchant for making use of puns as the names of locations, people, etc., in this case, ocean-themed puns (such as "Aqualaska" instead of Alaska)...

understood Cruz's talent. Cruz performed vocals for Terror Squad cohort Big Pun, on his songs "100%", "Laughin at You", and "My Dick". He has also appeared...

Rathvon); other kinds of crosswords (cryptic "British-style crosswords", puns and anagrams, spiral, diagramless, etc.); word puzzles of other formats (Split...

Game" which also featured Mobb Deep. In addition, Kool G featured on the Big Pun track "Wishful Thinking" and on Cuban Link's posse cut "Men of Business"...

Pun Sing-lui (Chinese: 潘星磊; pinyin: Pān Xīnglěi) is a mainland-trained performance artist and Hong Kong resident. His most notable and contested work...

Comico" by commentators in the United Kingdom and Italy respectively - both punning allusions to former Iraqi defence minister Ali Hassan al-Majid, better...

was released on December 9, 1997, and that featured guest vocals by Big Pun & Cuban Link. As one of the first artists to sign to Jellybean Recordings...

Zidane and Luc Nilis. The official mascot for the tournament was Benelucky (a pun on Benelux), a lion-devil hybrid with its mane having the flag colours of...

shared a name with the legendary seafarer has itself led to a number of puns swapping the two in the decades that followed. The concept of Davy Jones...

Om Prasad Pun magar (born 1942) is a Nepalese boxer. He competed in the men's light welterweight event at the 1964 Summer Olympics. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde...

In the series by Terry Pratchett, Discworld, the country of Djelibeybi (a pun on "jelly baby", but putatively meaning "Child of the (River) Djel", and...

the bunny girl. The eponymous Sailor Moon's human name is Usagi Tsukino, a pun on 月のうさぎ (Rom. Tsuki no usagi), which means Moon Rabbit in Japanese. Her...

girl next door. The plot displays many classic elements of farce, including puns, the slamming of doors, comedy of mistaken identity (frequently involving...

journalist Tim Barlass, who frequently appends reader contributions with puns; and who made the decision to reduce the column's publication from its traditional...

filled with lots of slapstick humor, as well as pop cultural references, puns, parodies and zany adventures. Littlest Pet Shop follows the lives of five...

and one male. The title of the song has been referred to in the form of puns on a few of Iris's later albums—the 2009 live album Ah! Live! and the 2010...

known by his nickname Tee Tot. Payne's nickname of "Tee Tot" is an ironic pun for "teetotaler". It is said that Payne received his nickname because he...

beginning of each episode, which often involve pop culture references and puns based on food or physique. As of early 2018, the podcast is no longer associated...

Ould Errachid started the pro-Spanish Sahrawi National Union Party (PUNS). The PUNS, which had been created with the approval of the Spanish authorities...

a source of satire for early Tamil films from the 1950s, in the form of puns and double entendres. Subsequent generations in Chennai identified with it...

31 October 2014 via AFM Records. The album's name and cover artwork is a pun on Air Force One. Credits for Scare Force One adapted from liner notes. Lordi...

Influenced by Bohemian and French poetry, Verlaine's lyrics also feature puns and double entendres intended to give the songs an impressionistic quality...

Broadway. Known for his delivery and voice, as well as his use of innuendo and pun, Mason's often culturally grounded humor was described as irreverent and...

Pantagruel. W. W. Norton & Co. p. 214. Shakespeare, William. Othello. In "Puns in Othello". Study.com. Retrieved 24 May 2016. "A Summary of Swift's "The...

office of the two men". Occasionally in the mistaken form duovirate. The pun 'tandemocracy' particularly refers to the Putin–Medvedev diarchy, as it is...

Frequently the area is simply referred to as "Calle Suecia." A commonly used pun is formed by changing the word Suecia to sucia, Spanish for "dirty", because...

dialogue was generally written in rhyming couplets, liberally peppered with bad puns. A typical example from a burlesque of Macbeth: Macbeth and Banquo enter...

and shows him how to be a better teacher. He acquires a flair for Latin puns. As the years pass, Chips becomes a much-loved school institution, developing...

1999: Brandy – "Top of the World" (Darkchild Remix) with Fat Joe and Big Pun 2000: Natalie Wilson & The S.O.P. Chorale – "Act Like You Know" with LaShawn...

Scott, who based his appearance on that of Gomez Addams. Badenov's name is a pun on that of 16th-century Russian tsar Boris Godunov (i.e., "good enough" vs...

2015. Filming began January 14, 2016, with episode titles being cleaning puns. It consisted of 10 episodes, airing from June 6 through August 8, 2016....

provide supporting evidence by showing that such characteristics as idioms, puns, peculiar grammatical structures, etc., are in fact derived from the original...

can be used to ease tensions between them. Some versions of the joke are puns on the words "change" or "screw". Q. How many psychiatrists does it take...

showcases hundreds of unique hand-crafted models and scenes, with lots of puns and humour. The site is set on approximately 4 acres (1.6 ha). There are...

Rocky and Bullwinkle is known for quality writing and wry humor. Mixing puns, cultural and topical satire, and self-referential humor, it appealed to...

in Bucklersbury in the City of London. The title Moriae Encomium had a punning second meaning as In Praise of More (in Greek moría translates into "folly")...

breaching humpback whales, blue whales, and other sea life. Whaling Walls (a pun on the Wailing Wall) are created by invitation of the communities, institutions...

awarded to the book's central character. "Magister Ludi" can also be seen as a pun: magister is a Latin word meaning "teacher", while ludus can be translated...

bear no relation to the original play." Wells gives, as an example of the puns in the texts, the following: Macbeth and Banquo make their first entrance...

numbers of them according to a set formula. Sometimes they involve parodies or puns. An example of an elephant joke is: Q: Why did the elephant paint its toenails...

1990s, through which he has signed fellow New York artists including Big Pun, Remy Ma, Tony Sunshine, Cuban Link, Triple Seis, as well as then-unknown...

several multi-platinum artists including Jay-Z, Ne-Yo, Akon, The Game, Big Pun, Mýa and R.E.M. Knobody worked as an A&R at SRC Records/Universal. Due to...

attended the Roxbury Latin School where teacher Ken Conn made a French language pun which later inspired his stage name: replacing the "ofsky" in his surname...

mixes photographic collage and oil techniques; the inscription is a (French pun (quel cul t'as!), an admiring exclamation on the woman's buttocks. Tynan...

(Chinese: 驕陽歲月), is a 2023 Hong Kong comedy-drama film directed by Anthony Pun and starring Chow Yun-fat as a pathological gambler who searches a way to...

Carroll's Alice classics mixes live action, claymation, songs and lots of puns. The series premieres today". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved January 7, 2014...

Wiktionary, the free dictionary. "Say Two Thing at Once – Paradoxes, irony, puns, and tactical ignorance". inpraiseofargument.com. Archived from the original...

subsidiary of Fast Retailing, the parent company of Uniqlo. The name is a pun of the word jiyū (自由), meaning "liberty, freedom" and its slogan means "more...

the 2014 regional elections in Vorarlberg. It was intended as an ironic pun since the SPÖ historically performed poorly in elections in this part of...

remaining indicator in the image indicates a total duration of "20:06," a visual pun connecting this ubiquitous bit of interface design to the year in which it...

Pauline (2006). Filthy Shakespeare: Shakespeare's Most Outrageous Sexual Puns. Quercus. p. 61. Partridge, Eric, Shakespeare's Bawdy, Routledge, London...

clothes and other objects are wrapped in plush. The word P. Luche, is a pun to the word plush in Spanish: peluche. The show is similar in style to the...

promotional campaign that sardonically proclaimed "This game stinks". The game's puns and humor were reworked by localizer Marcus Lindblom. Since the original...

sequel to SQUARE. The original name SEQUEL, which is widely regarded as a pun on QUEL, the query language of Ingres, was later changed to SQL (dropping...

fictional cousin of the Nobel Prize's founder, Alfred Nobel. The name is also a pun on the word ignoble. Most awards are for genuine scientific achievements...

… | Kirkus Reviews. O'Neill, Jamie (22 November 2003). "Whims and shams, puns and flams". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 29 March 2023. "Simpson...

purple and commutes? A. An abelian grape. (A pun on abelian group.) Occasionally, multiple mathematical puns appear in the same jest: When Noah sends his...

construction worker. His name and shape derives from "bulldozer", being a pun. His talent is digging and repairing roads with his yellow dozer blade. Miss...

photographing a subject—introduced an element of linguistic play reminiscent of the puns and provocations associated with the Dada movement. Whether motivated by...

preserving diversity of choice in beverages. Literally West lighthouse. This is a pun on the phrase Far West, the French equivalent of Wild West. Official site...

" The title of the 1993 song "Animal Nitrate" by English band Suede is a pun on amyl nitrite, referencing its recreational use, although singer Brett...

personification of space fighters from various Konami games. The game's title is a pun, being a portmanteau of the terms "Otome" and "Gradius", with a set of equipment...

com. 20 August 2017. Retrieved 18 September 2019. "Row over history of Punes community Ganesh festival". India Today. P. T. I. 16 July 2017. Retrieved...

the Dr. Slump name. Like the names of many other characters, Arale is a pun on the name for a bite-sized rice cracker (arare), and with the family name...

composed of "no" plus "yes", or refers to some oxymoronic candidates as puns through the conversion of nouns into verbs, as in "divorce court", or "press...

adventures of the game's two main characters, Sid E. Mouse and Al E. Cat (both puns on 'city mouse' and 'alley cat', respectively), as each tries to make life...

hit". The series is laden with puns, pop culture nods and humorous anachronisms, a hallmark of Goscinny's writing: Puns in characters' names, including...

of England knighted the loin of beef as "Sir Loin." In fact, though the pun is reported as early as 1630, and the notion of a king knighting it dates...

cockerel. Its use, by the enemies of France, dates to this period, originally a pun to make fun of the French, the association between the rooster and the Gauls/French...

brought renewed interest to the statue. The Washington Post collected comedic puns given to the statue by Twitter users, including "Gettysburg Undress," "Honest...

8 June 2024. B, Jayabhuvaneshwari (13 July 2024). "'Teenz' movie review: Puns outweigh plot in this teen adventure". The New Indian Express. Retrieved...

taste it. Additionally, Hilary Rose, writing in The Times was charmed by the puns that Cooper uses to describe sex. She also praised the "restraint" shown...

the bridge on the Pom Prap Sattru Phai side is a road junction called "Men Pun Intersection", which literally means "cement crematorium intersection". The...

Pun Magar or simply Pun are the largest population in Myagdi district. In Myagdi district, there are many Pun villages, such as Doba (3rd largest Pun...

and is housed in a new show building within the El CapiTOON Theater, a pun on the El Capitan Theatre. At the beginning of the ride, guests are invited...

The often humorous tone of the books is reflected in their titles, such as puns (The Cancelled Czech and The Scoreless Thai) or cultural references (Me Tanner...

ancient Ukrainian legends. The band name is a perestroika-era derogatory pun on the word "Communism". It is literally translated as "Who needs to go down"...

please", ungrammatical in either language). "Zwei bitte" is a Denglisch pun, sounding like "two bits" to a speaker of both languages. The melody is also...

2023-08-15. Girard, Timothy D.; Jackson, James C.; Pandharipande, Pratik P.; Pun, Brenda T.; Thompson, Jennifer L.; Shintani, Ayumi K.; Gordon, Sharon M.;...

is La jeune fille à l'agneau; which some commentators have described as a pun by Doyle on a famous Thomas Gainsborough painting, the Portrait of Georgiana...

pseudonyms he uses include "Molly Eyre" (a pun on Molière) for his writing, and "Harry V. Derci"/"Digital Derci" (a pun on "arrivederci") for his lettering work...

Mason described her songs as "mundane (or obscure) meanderings peppered by puns and brief, dazzling extrapolations". It also compared her to Car Seat Headrest...

Carolina newspaper The Post and Courier reported that "Heywood Jablome" (a pun for "Hey, would you blow me?", "blow" being slang for fellate) was escorted...

almost 18 months after Star Wars, mainly consisted of inside jokes and visual puns that heavily depended upon audience familiarity with the original. The theme...

1983 by American novelist and screenwriter William Goldman. The title is a pun on Dylan Thomas's unfinished book Adventures in the Skin Trade. The book...

wrapped in a shiny package of action, slapstick, and outrageous visual puns". Retitled as New Dominion Tank Police from episode 5 onwards. Also credited...

it's quite possible one wouldn’t notice such a substantial flaw for all the puns and comedy afoot. There are a few clues to add to spice up the plot. [.....

nautical term, "Ships Ahoy!" The actual reason for the naming is unclear. The pun had been used prominently twice before: Chapter 15 of The Uncommercial Traveller...

Jala Debh Duniya Tohra Pyar Mein, produced by the American film company PUN Films, was shown in the India Pavilion at the Cannes Film Festival 2010.[citation...

Québécois comedian and musician famous for his radio sketches featuring puns and absurd humour. His best-known sketches are from the series Les 2 minutes...

feature of Freedman and Romero's style is the heavy use of puns. Indeed, the frequency of puns incorporated into these programmes has rarely been matched...

sexual activity (akin to "roll in the hay"). The use of such imagery and puns increased during the Renaissance. The ballett forms a key part of Oxford's...

2008, Tama was knighted and awarded the title of "Wakayama de Knight" (a pun on "It's got to be Wakayama" in Japanese) by the prefectural governor, Yoshinobu...

of his success. He loved many words (Too Marvelous for Words), including puns (Strip Polka), and current terms ("G. I. Jive"). He employed sound effects...

bank". The Economist is known for its extensive use of word play, including puns, allusions, and metaphors, as well as alliteration and assonance, especially...

the fact that the characters die in the show multiple times, and making a pun phrase with the word "dead". The hiatus ended on December 8, 2011, with the...

(2015, Suburbia) Reflections (2018, self-release) "Q&A: Pet Symmetry On Dad Puns, Cutting Loose, & Starting A Band Because Of Harvey Danger". Stereogum. April...

them with rotten tomatoes. All references in the paper are multi-lingual puns and jokes; e.g., "(Karybb & Szyla, 1973)". David Bellos, who has translated...

Sylvia Lai Sui-Pun (born 23 June 1951), also known by her stage name Sum Sum, is a semi retired Hong Kong singer and actress. Lai was born in Hong Kong...

Frieza, Cooler, Chilled and Frost), Touch (as Ishami Nishimura), Niko Niko Pun (as Porori), Do-Re-Mi-Fa Donuts (as Resshi), Hotch Potch Station (as Echikettojii-san)...