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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Pun \Pun\, verb (used with an object) [See {Pound} to beat.] To pound. [Obs.]
He would pun thee into shivers with his fist. --Shak.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Pun \Pun\, noun [Cf. {Pun} to pound, {Pound} to beat.] A play on words which have the same sound but different meanings; an expression in which two different applications of a word present an odd or ludicrous idea; a kind of quibble or equivocation. --Addison.
A better put on this word was made on the Beggar's Opera, which, it was said, made Gay rich, and Rich gay. --Walpole.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Pun \Pun\, verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Punned}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Punning}.] To make puns, or a pun; to use a word in a double sense, especially when the contrast of ideas is ludicrous; to play upon words; to quibble. --Dryden.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Pun \Pun\, verb (used with an object) To persuade or affect by a pun. --Addison.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
pun
noun: a humorous play on words; "I do it for the pun of it"; "his constant punning irritated her" [syn: {punning}, {wordplay}, {paronomasia}]
verb: make a play on words; "Japanese like to pun--their language is well suited to punning" [also: {punning}, {punned}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
65 Moby Thesaurus words for "pun": abuse of terms, acrostic, alliterate, alliteration, ambiguity, amphibologism, amphibology, amphiboly, anagram, assonance, assonate, be merry with, calembour, chime, clink, corruption, counterword, crack a joke, crack wise, double entendre, equivocal, equivocality, equivocation, equivoque, fleer at, fun, gibe at, jape, jest, jeu de mots, jingle, joke, josh, kid, kid around, logogram, logogriph, make a funny, make fun, make fun of, malapropism, metagram, missaying, mock, near rhyme, palindrome, paronomasia, play on words, poke fun at, polysemant, portmanteau word, punning, quip, rhyme, ridicule, scintillate, scoff at, slant rhyme, sparkle, spoonerism, squinting construction, utter a mot, weasel word, wisecrack, wordplay
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