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Examples of word play include puns, phonetic mix-ups such as spoonerisms, obscure words and meanings, clever rhetorical excursions, oddly formed sentences, double entendres, and telling character names (such as in the play The Importance of Being Earnest, Ernest being a given name that sounds exactly like the adjective earnest).
Punch, 25 February 1914.The cartoon is a pun on the word "Jamaica", which pronunciation [dʒəˈmeɪkə] is a homonym to the clipped form of "Did you make her?". [1] [2]A pun, also known as a paronomasia in the context of linguistics, is a form of word play that exploits multiple meanings of a term, or of similar-sounding words, for an intended humorous or rhetorical effect. [3]
Ananym: a name with reversed letters of an existing name; Aptronym: a name that aptly represents a person or character; Charactonym: a name which suggests the personality traits of a fictional character; Eponym: applying a person's name to a place; Pseudonym: an artificial fictitious name, used as an alternative to one's legal name
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El Amcukiye is a "city in Syria", another pseudo-Arabic word play with the word amcık, vagina in Turkish. Female given names Eleanor and Elizabeth are slangs for masturbation as the Turkish word for hand is el. Real life names also can be used in the form of gag names by being similar to Turkish words. Examples are as follows.
The trickster figure Reynard the Fox as depicted in an 1869 children's book by Michel Rodange.. The trickster is a common stock character in folklore and popular culture.A clever, mischievous person or creature, the trickster achieves goals through the use of trickery.