will pun

• future tense

  future tense

  Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.

  of pun.
  pun

  noun

  the humorous use of a word or phrase so as to emphasize or suggest its different meanings or applications, or the use of words that are alike or nearly alike in sound but different in meaning; a play on words.

Example Sentences

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will pun

It is Cambridge men who correct themselves, and begin again at every half-sentence, and, moreover, will pun, and refine too much, and swerve from the matter to the expression.

From Representative Men by Ralph Waldo Emerson

He will pun in the most reckless manner at all times.

From Frank Merriwell's Races by Burt L. Standish

Related Words

• double entendre
• joke
• quip