名詞 pun:

1. a humorous play on words
   同義詞：punning, wordplay, paronomasia

動(dòng)詞 pun:

1. make a play on words

1. A maker of puns.
   使用雙關(guān)語的人
2. The slogan was a pun on the name of the product.
   那廣告用語與其產(chǎn)品名稱一語雙關(guān)。
3. He's always punning and I don't find it funny.
   他老是使用雙關(guān)語，我覺得很沒意思。

pun

n.（名詞）
A play on words, sometimes on different senses of the same word and sometimes on the similar sense or sound of different words.
雙關(guān)：一種文字游戲，有時(shí)利用同一個(gè)詞的不同意思而有時(shí)利用不同詞的相近意思或發(fā)音
v.intr.（不及物動(dòng)詞）
punned,pun.ning,puns
To make puns or a pun.
說雙關(guān)語

來源：
[Origin unknown]
[詞源不明]

【引伸】
pun.ningly
adv.（副詞）
<注釋>The origin of the wordpun is lost in obscurity, perhaps deservedly so in the eyes of those who consider the pun the feeblest form of wit. The wordpun is first recorded in a work of ''2 written by John Dryden. In a slightly later passage of '7'we find the wordpun in the company of the words pundigrion and punnet with the same sense. Punnet is probably a diminutive of pun, as are the laterpunlet (used by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 89) and punkin (Henry James, 8''). Butpundigrion, although recorded later, may have been around earlier than pun and might be its source.Pundrigrion in turn might be an alteration of the obsolete Italian word puntiglio, .fine point,. which we have in English aspunctilio. In any case,the wordpun has given birth to some derivatives of its own, including punnigram, modeled onepigram, and punnology.
可能在那些認(rèn)為雙關(guān)語是智慧的最虛弱表現(xiàn)形式的人眼里，pun 的本源難以考證是當(dāng)然的。 ''2年在約翰·德萊登的一篇文章中最早出現(xiàn)了pun 這個(gè)詞。 其后不久'7'年的一篇文章中，pun 同 pundigrion 和 punnet 具有相同的意思而列在一起。 Punnet 可能是 pun 的一個(gè)詞尾， 后來的punlet (89年薩繆爾·泰勒·柯利芝使用）和 punkin （亨利·詹姆斯于8''年使用）可能也是如此。 但盡管pundigrion 比 pun 的記載晚，卻很可能比它略早出現(xiàn)， 且可能是它的來源。Pundrigrion 按順序來說可能是已廢棄的意大利語 puntiglio 的變形，意為.妙處.， 英語中相應(yīng)的詞是punctilio。 不論如何，pun 自身還衍生了一些詞，包括 punnigram ， 它是模仿epigram 和 punnology 而成的