For years, we here at Dictionary.com have been working on a pretty ambitious project. We’ve been compiling a list of words that people use in the English language, and for each word that we add to the list, we write a few sentences about what it means. (A neat thing is that some of the words mean more than one thing.) A cool feature about …
Q: What do you get when you combine Dictionary.com with a Dad Joke Contest? A: 3,500 submissions and 5,200 votes, apparently! For our Dad Joke Contest, we gave you a classic setup with a twist—“Why did the dictionary cross the road?”—and asked you to submit the corniest, punniest, dad-jokiest punch line you could muster. Dads and non-dads delivered big time—submitting more than 3,500 entries! After …
Q: Do dads always tell dad jokes? A: You tell me—I didn’t know doodads could tell jokes at all! Sorry. We know you have real questions about dad jokes, including: What is a dad joke? When does a joke become a dad joke? Are dad jokes supposed to be funny? And why are they called dad jokes? We’ll answer these questions and more, and we’ll …
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 …