Punningly
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adverb
Quick meaning: Punningly is an adverb meaning In a punning manner; so as to form a pun.
Meaning
In a punning manner; so as to form a pun.
Example Sentences
Even though some names or words polysemically carry sexual meanings, this does not automatically mean that every usage of them in literary texts, even those of a pornographic nature, has a sexual meaning, either explicitly or punningly.
The film is an anthology of three whimsical short stories set in France in the mid-20th Century. The conceit is that they were all published in an English-language magazine which is edited in the punningly-named fictional French city of Ennui-sur-Blasé, but which is attached to an American newspaper based in Kansas.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include punnily, paronomastically, punily, punkily, porkily, poncily.
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