| 单词 | wordplay |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswordplay wordplay n. [compare German Wortspiel (17th cent.), and also play n. 8c] (a) the action of playing with words; witty use of words, esp. of verbal ambiguities; (b) an instance of this, a play on words (see play n. 8c), a pun. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > wit, wittiness > wit with words > [noun] > instance of crank1594 wits, fits, and fancies1595 jerk1598 quirk1600 tongue-squib1628 dictery1632 repartee1637 quip1645 good thing1671 bon mot1735 a play on (also upon) words1761 sally1781 wordplay1794 southboarda1805 mot1813 smartism1830 1794 Freemasons' Mag. Sept. 188 When..blockheads pretend to wit, for which estimable talent a glittering tinsel of word-play is mistaken as the reality. 1851 Biblical Repertory Oct. 687 To such an extent is this word-play carried, that language seems in his hands to lose its meaning. 1856 H. G. Migault Eight Hist. Diss. Suicide i. 14 Sokrates, whilst etymologizing on the word σῶμα, body, indulges in the following somewhat fanciful word-plays. 1911 H. M. R. Murray Erthe upon Erthe Introd. p. xxix Word-plays of the kind..are..not common in Latin verse of the time. 1967 Sci. Amer. Sept. 268/1 The double acrostic..was..the most popular form of word-play in English-speaking countries throughout the last quarter of the 19th century and until the end of World War I. 1982 I. Hamilton Robert Lowell (1983) ii. 18 Argument pursued for the sake of wit and wordplay rather than for any just or true solution. 2004 Independent (Tabloid ed.) 30 Sept. 43/3 Reviews and articles appeared throughout the 1960s and 1970s,..all of them sparkling with Sams's delight in wordplay, puns especially. < as lemmas |
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