punny
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Bonus points for the very punny name, which translates to: “You Need Some Confidence”
From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2024
The word is simple, punny, self-explanatory, and even historically significant.
From Salon • Feb. 15, 2024
In a marked departure from today’s raucous and punny picket lines, the guilds did not picket or demonstrate, according to contemporaneous articles that called the nature of the strikes “firm but polite.”
From Seattle Times • Jul. 18, 2023
There is even a punny popular name for the phenomenon: the “wood-wide web.”
From Scientific American • Feb. 13, 2023
The cheeky, punny humor of that title is something for the filmmakers to live up to.
From New York Times • Feb. 24, 2022
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