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Wordplay  n.  A more or less subtle playing upon the meaning of words.






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"Wordplay" Quotes from Famous Books



... Jones truly remarks, 'he laid open all his mind and the whole of his character, and what can be made known can scarcely fail to charm every one by its loveliness, its truthfulness, and its earnestness.' Abbott and he sometimes swerved into wordplay about love; but up to 1820, or thereabouts, the passion was potential merely. Faraday's journal indeed contains entries which show that he took pleasure in the assertion of his contempt for love; but these very entries became links in his destiny. ...
— Fragments of science, V. 1-2 • John Tyndall



Words linked to "Wordplay" :   play, sport, paronomasia, punning, pun, fun



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