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wordplay

[ wurd-pley ]

noun

  1. clever or subtle repartee; verbal wit.
  2. a play on words; pun.


wordplay

/ ˈwɜːdˌpleɪ /

noun

  1. verbal wit based on the meanings and ambiguities of words; puns, clever repartee, etc


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Word History and Origins

Origin of wordplay1

First recorded in 1870–75; word + play

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Example Sentences

Waldman overlays her comic situations and satiric conversations with ironic literary allusions and witty wordplay.

The advice is littered with such headache-inducing wordplay.

Doubtless stocks new WordPlay Shakespeare program aimed at getting students engaged in Bard via youthful fondness for high tech.

He created a special puzzle for Oprah Winfrey when he appeared on the show to promote the Wordplay documentary about crosswords.

Once again, wordplay and ethnicity wounded an office-seeking Virginia Republican.

Abbott and he sometimes swerved into wordplay about love; but up to 1820, or thereabouts, the passion was potential merely.

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