corny pun · mediocre joke, a groaner
çekim: çoğul Kalauern · tamlayan Kalauers
köken: After the city Calau, influenced by French calembour.
aile: kalauern
🔊 Der Kalauer ist das schwarze Schaf unter den Witzen, das Schmuddelkind in der Familie der gepflegten Wortspiele. Eine Ehrenrettung tut not.
pun (joke or type of wordplay)
çekim: çoğul calembours
köken: Uncertain, possibly influenced by bourde (“blunder”).
bleak (fish); dace · luck, chance, risk · a kind of humorous wordplay that relies on sexual innuendo; a risqué double entendre
çekim: çoğul albures
eş: liza, mújol
köken: From Andalusian Arabic البوري (al-búri), from Arabic بُورِيّ (būriyy), named from a city in Egypt.
aile: alburear, alburero
🔊 correr el albur
🔊 dejarlo al albur
quarrel, squabble · pun, play on words
çekim: çoğul bisticci
eş: litigio, lite, battibecco, diverbio, alterco, baruffa
köken: Deverbal from bisticciare + -o.
pun, play on words, wordplay
köken: Borrowed from Arabic جِنَاس (jinās).
diminutive of woordgrap
çekim: çoğul woordgrapjes
zombaria, zoação, escárnio
play on words, wordplay, pun
çekim: çoğul λογοπαίγνια · tamlayan λογοπαιγνίου
köken: Learnedly from λογο- (logo-) + Ancient Greek παίγνιον (paígnion), a calque of French jeu de mots.
wittiness, refinement, stylishness, easygoing-ness · stylish and fashionable dress, good style in one's clothing · short for 洒落女 (share onna): an unlicensed prostitute during the Edo period
köken: Derived as the 連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 洒(しゃ)落(れ)る (shareru, “to be witty; to be stylish or dapper”). The spelling is an example of phonetic ateji (当(あ)て字(じ)), ultimately from Chinese 灑落 /洒落 (sǎluò, “confident and at ease; natural and elegant”). First cited to the late 1600s.
aile: 洒落女, お洒落, 駄洒落
무엇을 두고 재미 삼아 혹은 아무 쓸데없이 주고 받는 말.
eş: 빈말, 실언, 헛소리
a play on words
çekim: çoğul ordlekar · tamlayan ordleks
köken: ord (“word”) + lek (“play”)
play on words, pun · wordplay (witty verbal exchange)
çekim: çoğul gry słów · tamlayan gry słów
eş: dwuznacznik, kalambur, ekwiwok
köken: Literally, “play on words”.
wordplay, pun
çekim: çoğul sanaleikit · tamlayan sanaleikin
köken: sana + leikki
çekim: çoğul slovní hříčky · tamlayan slovní hříčky
çekim: çoğul calambururi · tamlayan calamburului
köken: Borrowed from French calembour.
wordplay, pun, paronomasia
çekim: çoğul szójátékok
köken: First attested in 1817. From szó (“word”) + játék (“play”). Calque of German Wortspiel. Created during the Hungarian language reform, which took place in the 18th–19th centuries.
pun, wordplay
çekim: çoğul ordspillene · tamlayan ordspils
köken: From ord (“word”) + spil (“game”), calque of German Wortspiel. Compare also English wordplay, French jeu de mots.
pun, play on words · word game
çekim: çoğul jocs de paraules
çekim: çoğul imeartais fhocal · tamlayan imeartais fhocal
a word game, a word play, a play on words
çekim: çoğul orðaleikir · tamlayan orðaleiks
köken: From orð (“word”) + leikur (“game”).
play on words, pun
çekim: çoğul kalambure
pun, play on words, wordplay
çekim: çoğul բառախաղեր
köken: From բառ (baṙ, “word”) + -ա- (-a-) + խաղ (xaġ, “game”).
pun, quirk
çekim: çoğul კალამბურები · tamlayan კალამბურის
köken: Borrowed from Russian каламбур (kalambur), from French calembour.