play+upon+words
91pun — I. n. Quibble, clinch, calembourg, play upon words, witticism, conceit, paragram. II. v. n. Quibble, play upon words, make a pun …
92quibble — I. n. 1. Evasion, cavil, subterfuge, pretence, subtlety, quirk, shift, prevarication, equivocation, sophism, quiddity, trifling nicety. 2. Pun, clinch, calembourg, play upon words. II. v. n. 1. Cavil, shuffle, prevaricate, equivocate, practise… …
93παρονομασία — παρονομασίᾱ , παρονομασία play upon words which sound alike fem nom/voc/acc dual παρονομασίᾱ , παρονομασία play upon words which sound alike fem nom/voc sg (attic doric aeolic) …
94παρονομασίας — παρονομασίᾱς , παρονομασία play upon words which sound alike fem acc pl παρονομασίᾱς , παρονομασία play upon words which sound alike fem gen sg (attic doric aeolic) …
95Ned Touchstone — Ned O Neal Touchstone Born September 27, 1926(1926 09 27) Florien, Sabine Parish Louisiana, USA Died July 16, 1988(1988 07 16) (aged 61) Lake Palestine near Tyler, Smith County Texas, USA …
96Babylonian astrology — In Babylonia as well as in Assyria as a direct offshoot of Babylonian culture (or as we might also term it Euphratean culture), astrology takes its place in theofficial cult as one of the two chief means at the disposal of the priests (who were… …
97quibble — n 1. equivocation, prevarication, evasion, dodge, elusion, avoidance; shuffling, shifting, hedging, beating around the bush; qualification, compromise, cop out; ambiguity, amphibology, vagueness, indefiniteness, indistinctness, indeterminateness; …
98Vers de société — a term for social or familiar poetry, which was originally borrowed from the French, and has now come to rank as an English expression. [Fennell, The Stamford Dictionary of Anglicised Words ] HistoryIn FranceThe use of the phrase as an English o …
99paronomasia — A rhetorical device, especially in the OT, using two words similar in sound or appearance. It is difficult to reproduce this Hebrew play upon words, but one suggestion for the pun in Isa. 7:9 is ‘If you are not firm in faith, you will not be firm …
100pun — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. wordplay, paronomasia, pundigrion, calembour, equivoque; quip, joke, double entendre; paragram. See wit, similarity. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. conceit, witticism, quip, quibble, double entendre, play… …
