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- noun Plural form of
paronomasia .
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The peculiarity is also called water and grain, which gives rise to a host of double-entendres, puns, paronomasias and conceits more or less frigid.
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The peculiarity is also called water and grain, which gives rise to a host of double-entendres, puns, paronomasias and conceits more or less frigid.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
mercy commented on the word paronomasias
Puns. Yay.
February 28, 2009