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Pun P 17th 18th Century Italian Puntiglio Attested 13297.Pun

正面 13297.pun
英 [pʌn]美 [pʌn]

背面
释义:
vi. 说双关语;说俏皮话n. 双关语;俏皮话vt. 捣实敲打n. (Pun)人名;(柬)本;(泰)汶
例句:
1. He is a master of the pun and the double entendre.他出口就是俏皮话,说话下流不带脏字。

1. 对比:pan, pen, pin, pon-, pun.2. 谐音“判”---判官----判双关-----判一语双关----判词一语双关。3. pound => pun.4. p- + -un (字母u、n正好是双向倒置,它们就像是两个通道,但是通道的末尾都被堵死了、被关上了,是不是非常形象地表达了“双关”的意境啊) => pun <= 盼双关。5. p- (pipe) + -un (形象“双关”) =》pun: 双向的管道都被关了。6. 段子手 =》 punster.
pun 双关语词源不详,可能缩写自拉丁语punctum,点,刺点,词源同point,punch.
punpun: [17] Snappy monosyllables produced by breaking off a piece of a longer word were all the rage in late 17th- and early 18th-century England (mob is a well-known example), and it is thought that pun may be one of them. It seems to be short for pundigrion, a short-lived fanciful 17th- and 18th-century term for a ‘pun’ or ‘quibble’ which may have been adapted from Italian puntiglio ‘nice point, quibble’ (source of English punctilious).pun (n.)1660s (first attested in Dryden), of uncertain origin, perhaps from pundigron, which is perhaps a humorous alteration of Italian puntiglio "equivocation, trivial objection," diminutive of Latin punctum "point." This is pure speculation. The verb also is attested from 1660s. Related: Punned; punning. Pun was prob. one of the clipped words, such as cit, mob, nob, snob, which came into fashionable slang at or after the Restoration. [OED]"

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