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a joke that hits you twice, the second time with a groan
means A play on words that exploits multiple meanings or similar sounds for humorous effect.
from The word surfaced in the 17th century, but where it came from is honestly a mystery. The leading guess ties it to 'pundigrion,' itself a fanciful, possibly Italianate flourish (some point to 'puntiglio,' a fine point or quibble), with 'pun' as the clipped survivor. But scholars admit they're squinting in the dark here — the trail simply runs cold, which is a fittingly slippery fate for a word about slippery words.
- oldest gag
- Sumerian clay tablets contain puns over 4000 years old
- shakespeare loved them
- Over 3000 puns scattered across his plays
- brain split
- Both hemispheres fire to catch a pun
- french name
- Called calembour, blamed on a forgetful nobleman
- highest art
- Freud devoted a whole book to wordplay