Punned vs Tunned - What's the difference?
punned | tunned |
(pun)
To beat; strike with force; ram; pound, as in a mortar; reduce to powder.
* Shakespeare
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.
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To make or tell a pun; make a play on words.
(tun)
A large cask; an oblong vessel bulging in the middle, like a pipe or puncheon, and girt with hoops; a wine cask.
(brewing) A fermenting vat.
An old English measure of capacity for liquids, containing 252 wine gallons; equal to two pipes.
* 1882 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , p. 205:
A weight of 2,240 pounds.
An indefinite large quantity.
* (rfdate) Dryden
(archaic, humorous, or, derogatory) A drunkard.
(zoology) Any shell belonging to and allied genera; called also tun-shell.
A part of the ancient Maya Long Count Calendar system which corresponds to 18 winal cycles or 360 days.
To put into tuns, or casks.
As verbs the difference between punned and tunned
is that punned is (pun) while tunned is (tun).punned
English
Verb
(head)pun
English
(wikipedia pun)Etymology 1
From (etyl) . More at (l).Verb
- He would pun thee into shivers with his fist.
Etymology 2
From a special use of Etymology 1 .Noun
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- "Certainly, my home at my uncle's brought me acquainted with a circle of admirals. Of Rears'' and ''Vices I saw enough. Now do not be suspecting me of a pun , I entreat."
Usage notes
* Because some puns are based on pronunciation, puns are more obvious when spoken aloud. For example: “This rock is gneiss, but don’t take it for granite.” This reads (with a US accent) similarly to “This rock is nice, but don’t take it for granted.” (Both “gneiss” and “granite” are types of rock.)Synonyms
* See alsoVerb
- We punned about the topic until all around us groaned.
See also
* antanaclasis * paronomasiaAnagrams
* ----tunned
English
Verb
(head)tun
English
Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- Again, by 28 Hen. VIII, cap. 14, it is re-enacted that the tun of wine should contain 252 gallons, a butt of Malmsey 126 gallons, a pipe 126 gallons, a tercian or puncheon 84 gallons, a hogshead 63 gallons, a tierce 41 gallons, a barrel 31.5 gallons, a rundlet 18.5 gallons.
- "He therefore sends you, meeter for your spirit,
- A tun of man in thy large bulk is writ.
Verb
- (Boyle)