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单词 punning
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punning in British English

present participle of verb
pun1 (sense 2), pun2
 

pun in British English 2

(pʌn)
verbWord forms: puns, punning or punned
(transitive) British
to pack (earth, rubble, etc) by pounding
Derived forms
punner (ˈpunner)
noun
Word origin
C16: dialectal variant of pound1

Examples of 'punning' in a sentence
punning

And, no, punning on the word 'balls' doesn't count.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Security saw some kind of intolerable threat in a punning message on a balloon?
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
A sceptical punning humour spotlighted fashionable absurdities.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Her punning original-language title is untranslatable, of course.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Orally and in print the two words were 'sometimes indistinguishable', making them ripe for punning.
The Times Literary Supplement (2015)
Part boardroom thriller, part domestic drama, the novel, as its punning title suggests, is a tale of fantastic credulity.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
No art, nothing but some sadly punning slogans and the most uninspired, turgid and solipsistically verbose writing.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
His banal and punning conclusion is that 'food is certain to be a vital ingredient of humanity's future'.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
The punning names cued by this concept — such as hippotatoes and tacodiles — epitomise the film's joyful silliness.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
German media condemned the boots - as well as seeing them as an unmissable punning opportunity.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
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