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A homographic pun exploits words that are spelled the same but possess different meanings and sounds. Because of their origin, they rely on sight more than hearing, contrary to homophonic puns. Because of their origin, they rely on sight more than hearing, contrary to homophonic puns.
A homograph (from the Greek: ὁμός, homós 'same' and γράφω, gráphō 'write') is a word that shares the same written form as another word but has a different meaning. [1] However, some dictionaries insist that the words must also be pronounced differently, [ 2 ] while the Oxford English Dictionary says that the words should also be of ...
Most of the pairs listed below are closely related: for example, "absent" as a noun meaning "missing", and as a verb meaning "to make oneself missing". There are also many cases in which homographs are of an entirely separate origin, or whose meanings have diverged to the point that present-day speakers have little historical understanding: for ...
Not really a "malapropism", going by the strict definition. That would be more like a Norm Crosby joke, e.g. referring to Gentiles as "uncircumscribed". ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 14:30, 6 July 2010 (UTC) How about "homographic pun"?
A bilingual pun is a pun created by a word or phrase in one language sounding similar to a different word or phrase in another language. The result of a bilingual pun can be a joke that makes sense in more than one language (a joke that can be translated) or a joke which requires understanding of both languages (a joke specifically for those ...
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A feghoot (also known as a story pun or poetic story joke) is a humorous short story or vignette ending in a pun (typically a play on a well-known phrase), where the story contains sufficient context to recognize the punning humor.