pun: [17] Snappy monosyllables produced by breaking off a piece of a longer word were all the rage in late 17th- and early 18th-century England (mob is a well-known example), and it is thought that pun may be one of them. It seems to be short for pundigrion, a short-lived fanciful 17th- and 18th-century term for a ‘pun’ or ‘quibble’ which may have been adapted from Italian puntiglio ‘nice point, quibble’ (source of English punctilious).
pun (n.)
1660s (first attested in Dryden), of uncertain origin, perhaps from pundigron, which is perhaps a humorous alteration of Italian puntiglio "equivocation, trivial objection," diminutive of Latin punctum "point." This is pure speculation. The verb also is attested from 1660s. Related: Punned; punning.
Pun was prob. one of the clipped words, such as cit, mob, nob, snob, which came into fashionable slang at or after the Restoration. [OED]
实用例句
1. He is a master of the pun and the double entendre.
他出口就是俏皮话，说话下流不带脏字。
来自柯林斯例句
2. We're banking on them lending us the money—no pun intended!
我们正指望他们借给我们钱呢—bank绝无双关之意！
来自《权威词典》
3. The slogan is a pun on the name of the product.
那广告用语与其产品名称一语双关。
来自辞典例句
4. The slogan was a pun on the name of the product.
那广告用语与其产品名称一语双关.
来自辞典例句
5. There are two kinds of puns, phonetic pun and semantic pun.
