His constant punning irritated her. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
I would ban anyone who engages in punning like this. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Everything Old Is New Again] Reference
He's recovering well and punning, which is the true measure of his recovery. From Wordnik.com. [Stormwolf.com] Reference
I at once looked on the figure of the animal as a kind of punning or hieroglyphical signature. From Wordnik.com. [Short Stories for English Courses] Reference
I at once looked upon the figure of the animal as a kind of punning or hieroglyphical signature. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1] Reference
The punning motto of this family is worth noticing. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, No. 209, October 29 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc.] Reference
"Father says punning is the very lowest form of --". From Wordnik.com. [The S. W. F. Club] Reference
“Craig-inguilt,” said Caleb, punning upon the word. From Wordnik.com. [The Bride of Lammermoor] Reference
Ariosto gave a fashionable meaning in the punning verse. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Beneath each engraving is a rhyming and punning quatrain. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter at Home] Reference
S. O'BRIEN: Please, not two of you punning at us all day. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 2, 2006] Reference
For the king hated all witticisms, and punning especially. From Wordnik.com. [Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers] Reference
Most of the time good (bad?) punning takes fairly quick wit. From Wordnik.com. [MyLinkVault Newest Links] Reference
“A likelier spot for us, Father,” said Eustace, punning. From Wordnik.com. [Westward Ho!] Reference
That's warmed-over '60s rhetoric with more punning than thinking. From Wordnik.com. [Richard Bradley: Responding to Andrew Sullivan, Part 2] Reference
The Latin epitaph (1588) is a string of punning allusions to his name. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: Southwark Cathedral Formerly the Collegiate Church of St. Saviour, Otherwise St. Mary Overie. A Short History and Description of the Fabric, with Some Account of the College and the See] Reference
Some censure this conversation of St. Gregory as a piece of low punning. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
Despite the terrible punning opportunities here, this is a serious issue. From Wordnik.com. [Linda Bergthold: Do Contraceptives Stimulate the Economy?] Reference
A weakness for punning is one of the onset signatures of senility, Garrett. From Wordnik.com. [Angry Lead Skies]
All punning aside, Tom is a passionate advocate and this is a serious book. From Wordnik.com. [How To Kick The Fossil Fuel Habit] Reference
Sometimes, as here, this subtle sense of double meanings almost leads to punning. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Louis Stevenson] Reference
Horwitz tells us "I rejoice in the endeavor" -- punning on the name of Cook's ship. From Wordnik.com. [A Genuine Cook's Tour] Reference
The Post has a long history of punning on the Gotti name: today's entry is “GOTTI GO!”. From Wordnik.com. [Wood War: Who Wins Today's Grabby Tabloid Battle For Your Eyeballs?] Reference
It's the perfect example of an awful country song from that period, down to its punning title. From Wordnik.com. [Puns In Country Music Songs Done Right] Reference
He has to riff on a given word or phrase until he's run through every possible punning permutation. From Wordnik.com. [Jennifer Ouellette: 10 Things I Hate About Hamlet] Reference
We have rarely met with more outrageous specimens of punning run mad, than are to be found in its pages. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847] Reference
The names of the plants that come up must bear some direct relation, punning or otherwise, to the things planted. From Wordnik.com. [Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium] Reference
As the talk on punning diverged, the conversation gradually fell back into private chats between dinner-companions. From Wordnik.com. [Conversation What to Say and How to Say it] Reference
Some people say the punning in country is the characteristic that makes it hard for them to take the music seriously. From Wordnik.com. [Puns In Country Music Songs Done Right] Reference
With hotshot, who turns out to have no ideas, getting an errant stiffy, to complete the punning, Peggy wins the stare down. From Wordnik.com. [William Bradley: Mad Men Makes the All-Time Television Pantheon and Unspools Another Fine Episode] Reference
NUNBERG: For some people, of course, this sort of punning just confirms a sense of country music as a linguistic trailer park. From Wordnik.com. [Puns In Country Music Songs Done Right] Reference
A punning epitaph, also acrostic in form, but in English, is to be found in the nave, to one Merrett, a barber chirurgeon, who died in. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire] Reference
Full of fun he was when with his friends, punning, quibbling and joking in quaint and original ways that made him welcome wherever he went. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8] Reference
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