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Pun Pronunciation

Pronounce Pun as P UW N.

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    Pun phonetic transcription:

    When you start learning English, it's important to become familiar with the typical sounds of the language. The best way to do this is by studying phonetics. Below is the UK transcription for the word 'pun'. Get the right phonetic representation for any word using our free Phonetic Transcription Tool.

    • Traditional IPA representation of pun: /pun/
    • Modern IPA representation of pun: /pʊn/

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    List of meaning for pun

    a joke that makes use of one word with multiple meanings or words that sound the same but have different meanings

    pun, punning, wordplay, paronomasia(verb)

    a humorous play on words

    "I do it for the pun of it"; "his constant punning irritated her"

    pun(verb)

    make a play on words

    "Japanese like to pun--their language is well suited to punning"

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    Translation found for pun

    pun in sentence

    1. My friend is a photographer whose favorite pun is ‘she had a photographic memory but never developed it.’

    2. A pun can be extremely corny, but some are very clever, such as ‘Santa’s helpers are known as subordinate Clauses.’

    3. When the astronaut proposed, he made a pun by saying it was time that they propel their relationship to the next level.

    4. An example of a pun is ‘a bicycle can’t stand on its own because it’s two-tired,’ a joke that makes me groan every time I hear it.

    5. Most people consider any joke that employs word play to be a pun, though a real pun is not quite that simple.

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    Quotes and sayings containing the term pun

    You'd have to work really hard to connect the dots between what Trump's lawyer said, which was ridiculous, and Republicans, i think -- excuse the pun -- that would be a trumped up story. That would be somewhat manufactured.

    – Christine Matthews

    Let’s see how it does, let’s give it a year and a half and see if it can deliver – you know, no pun intended.

    – Kelly Townsend

    San Francisco-based Uber is honestly a perfect vehicle for terrorists, no pun intended, we have real worries about that. A terrorist can go anywhere as an San Francisco-based Uber driver — it’s so easy to sign up and be approved as one — and if he’s stopped by authorities he can just say, ‘ Oh, I ’m an San Francisco-based Uber driver. ’.

    – George Fiorenza

    Fat-shaming is a thing ; it's a really big thing, no pun intended, it is the really nasty spawn of a larger parent problem called body-shaming, which I'm fairly certain everyone on the planet, especially women, has experienced.

    – Whitney Way Thore

    Once the technology disappears in the eye of the consumer, no pun intended, I think there will be a lot less pushback than what we’ve seen in the last one or two years.

    – Jake Steinerman

    I wish everyone could get to know Hillary's heart like I have, she always looks out for the little guy — no pun intended.

    – Ryan Moore

    Throughout my career, over the last 20-plus years, I have seen a rise and fall -- pardon the pun -- in the size of breast implants. In the '90s and 2000s, for my practice, implant sizes were larger. Patients were requesting larger breast implants. Today, patients' requests have moderated somewhat, what is stable, in reality, are none of our procedures or surgeries.

    – Stafford Broumand

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