Always Intended: The Pun Hall of Fame
We tried to think of a pun about dictionaries for this introduction, but thinking so hard gave us a headache—it’s thesaurus our head has ever been!
Welcome to the Dictionary.com Pun Hall of Fame. Home of good puns, bad puns, funny puns, and the most groan-inducing puns in all the land.
If you’ve got a pun-believable pun, share it with us, and you, too, might be forever immortalized in this hallowed hall.
Dictionary.com Pun Hall of Fame
I saw a theatrical performance about puns. It was a play on words.
— Kevan Brown (@KevanUSM) May 15, 2023
Believe it or not, I can cut a piece of wood in half just by looking at it. Seriously, I saw it with my own eyes. #DictionaryWeek
— R.C. Liley (@going_dad) May 15, 2023
I was wondering why the ball was getting bigger. Then it hit me.
My kid loved this one during tball season!
— ThatRoadtripMom (@RoadTripMomDE) May 15, 2023
I went for a pun competition and submitted 10 puns hoping at least one would win. Unfortunately no pun in ten did.#boxingday #punday
— Ndang Fonane (@NdangFonane) December 26, 2018
I read about a very fast chicken.
He was poultry in motion.
— TheHandsomeRandall (@HandsomeRandall) August 22, 2021
My local bookshop has a special offer on English romantic poets. It’s called ‘Byron get one free’ #punday
— Catherine Kelliher (@kitty_kelliher) June 28, 2022
Horses. Yay or neigh?#BadPun
— Noah Maher (@noahsparc) March 20, 2021
I have MUSTARD the courage to tweet now. Let me be FRANK, it’s the WURST feeling. But in HEINZ-sight, it’s a WEINER!
— Gold’s Jim (@jimvicdy) August 22, 2022
Monday Punday brought to you by one of my students: I used to tell a joke about pizza, but it was too cheesy.
— Punny_Teacher (@Mrs_Puns) November 7, 2022
If there’s a yeti sitting on your belly, is it an abdominal snowman? #badpun
— Darius Quebec 🏳️⚧️ (@ksej) December 9, 2018
There’s been a lot of *commocean* on board now that we’ve *waved* goodbye to our last sight of land… but *shorely* we’ll get used to #lifeatsea eventually!#SundayFunday #Punday #NSFfunded pic.twitter.com/Vk1fnJZkIv
— JOIDES Resolution (@TheJR) December 13, 2022
I just went to an emotional wedding. Even the cake was in tiers.#pun
— Jesse Cale (@JesseCale) December 13, 2016
