Pun

  • 11pun|ka — pun|kah or pun|ka «PUHNG kuh», noun. (in India and Indonesia) a fan, especially a large swinging fan hung from the ceiling and kept in motion by a servant or by machinery: »The courtroom was sombre…High up…the punkahs were swaying short to and… …

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  • 12pun|ny — «PUHN ee», adjective, ni|er, ni|est. having or consisting of a pun or puns: »a punny slogan. Episodes don t fit together very well in this…often punny and occasionally hilarious mistresspiece (Maclean s) …

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  • 13Pun — Pun, 1) (engl., spr. Pönn), Wortspiel, mehre Zeitungen haben stehende Artikel für Puns; 2) Münze, so v.w. Condorin …

    Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

  • 14Pun — Pun, japan. Gewicht, s. Fung …

    Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

  • 15Pun — Pun, japan. Gewicht, s. Candarin …

    Kleines Konversations-Lexikon

  • 16Pun — (Pönn), engl., Wortspiel …

    Herders Conversations-Lexikon

  • 17púnđa — púnđ|a ž ženska frizura od podignute, začešljane i pričvršćene kose [nositi ∼u; imati ∼u] ✧ {{001f}}mađ …

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  • 18pun — s. v. cartaginez. Trimis de siveco, 13.09.2007. Sursa: Sinonime …

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  • 19pun — (n.) 1660s, probably a clipped form of pundigron, which is perhaps a humorous alteration of It. puntiglio equivocation, trivial objection, dim. of L. punctum point. The verb is attested from 1660s. Johnson has also punster, defined as a low wit… …

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  • 20pun — [n] play on words ambiguity, calembour, conceit, double entendre, double meaning, equivoque, joke, paronomasia, quibble, quip, witticism; concepts 273,278 …

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