Wordplayer
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Wordplayer is a noun meaning One who engages in wordplay.
Meaning
One who engages in wordplay.
Example Sentences
A favorite among wordplayers is the antonymous pair find in and find out.
One of the things that wordplayers like to do is create new words by blending two existing words.
As M. M. Mahood has demonstrated in Shakespeare’s Wordplay (1957), hundreds of puns appear in his work. Only the author of Ulysses (1922) and Finnegans Wake (1939) challenges him for first place among wordplayers in British literature.
Word Forms
- wordplayers
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include punster, pun.
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