Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which puns or rams earth into a hole; specifically, a tool for ramming earth.
- noun One who makes puns; a punster.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A punster.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
punster .
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Examples
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Cmon, pb, iz jus bak after munfs ov lurkin, an yur gibbin me a pane in me punner!
SK8TR CHIK - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010
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Tim: Well, as you know, puns often only please the punner, but my admittedly imperfect puns aren't so bad, relatively speaking.
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I'm not a big punner, but the rest of them make me who I am!
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Purrrrhaps yoo dont know it, but Pittypat iz the champeen punner heer!
I did the math - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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After reading it's genius, I buzzed Chelsay Perettay , co-punner, who I'm guessing from the background noise was out on the town, and read her this genius... then we laughed and laughed.
The Apiary Hits A Homer Michelle Collins 2005
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After reading it's genius, I buzzed Chelsay Perettay , co-punner, who I'm guessing from the background noise was out on the town, and read her this genius... then we laughed and laughed.
Archive 2005-08-01 Michelle Collins 2005
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Envoy; and sat this evening with my friend Darteneuf, [3] whom you have heard me talk of; the greatest punner of this town next myself.
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A useful multi-purpose hand tool, partly based on the punner, is the hammer-hoe (figure III. 2).
Chapter 6 1987
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Using a punner in not only hard work but also has one significant disadvantage: it recompacts the broken-down material which is then difficult to mix and process into blocks.
Chapter 6 1987
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The simplest device to break down lumps of soil is a punner
Chapter 6 1987
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