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English word pun comes from Old English pūnian
pūnian (Old English)
punen (Middle English)
pun (English)
A joke or type of wordplay in which similar senses or sounds of two words or phrases, or different senses of the same word, are deliberately confused. (intransitive) To make or tell a pun; to make a play on words.. (transitive) To beat; strike with force; to ram; to pound, as in a mortar; reduce to powder, to pulverize.