Wordplay

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Wordplay \Word"play`\, n.
     A more or less subtle playing upon the meaning of words.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  wordplay
       n : a humorous play on words; "I do it for the pun of it"; "his
           constant punning irritated her" [syn: {pun}, {punning}, {paronomasia}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  21 Moby Thesaurus words for "wordplay":
     abuse of terms, acrostic, amphibologism, amphiboly, anagram,
     calembour, corruption, equivocality, equivoque, jeu de mots,
     logogram, logogriph, malapropism, metagram, missaying, palindrome,
     paronomasia, play on words, pun, punning, spoonerism