Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A play upon words; a pun.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A pun.
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- noun A play upon words; a
pun .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Lane held the poetry untranslatable because abounding in the figure Tajnís, our paronomasia or paragram, of which there are seven distinct varieties,433 not to speak of other rhetorical flourishes.
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Since the Deacon told that story I have had a paragram about another parrot; one that lived in Edinburgh, Scotland, five years ago.
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By the way, talking of dresses puts me in mind of a paragram that came the other day, about
St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, May, 1878, No. 7. Scribner's Illustrated Various 1868
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In Texas there are pigs whose hoofs are not divided like those of ordinary pigs, but are each in one solid piece; at least, so I'm informed in a paragram fresh from England.
St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, July 1878, No. 9 Various 1868
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Lane held the poetry untranslatable because abounding in the figure Tajnís, our paronomasia or paragram, of which there are seven distinct varieties, [FN#433] not to speak of other rhetorical flourishes.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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Fiat juflitia — a paragram for an hangman's cart. '
radon commented on the word paragram
"The paragram is that aspect of language which escapes all discourse." Steve McCaffery quoted in Marjorie Perloff's _Radical Artifice_.
"...paragram, which is to say, following Leon S. Roudiez, that 'its organization of words (and their denotations), grammar, and syntax is challenged by the infinite possibilities provided by letters or phonemes combining to form networks of signification not accessible through conventional reading habits." quoted by McCaffery quoted by Perloff in _Radical Artifice_
July 7, 2009