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A daffynition is a pun format involving the reinterpretation of an existing word, on the basis that it sounds like another word (or group of words). They are similar to transpositional puns, but often much less complex and easier to create. Some daffynitions may be cheap puns, but others can be clever, such as "raisins=the wrath of grapes". A subclass of daffynition is the goofinition which relies strictly on literal associations and correct spellings, such as "lobster=a weak tennis player". Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary (a portmanteau of wiki and dictionary) is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 150 languages. ... A pun (also known as paronomasia) is a figure of speech which consists of a deliberate confusion of similar words within a phrase or phrases for rhetorical effect, whether humorous or serious. ... A transpositional pun is a complicated pun format with two aspects. ...

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Examples

• abominable: A bull that swallowed a bomb. (bomb-in-a-bull)
• alarms: What an octopus is. (all arms)
• baby: Newly-wet. (wet-wed)
• Bangalore: Distort a story. (bang-a-lore)
• bigamist: An Italian fogbank. (big-a-mist)
• buccaneer: too much to pay for corn ([a] buck an ear)
• clam: Jello with book ends.
• cobra: A feminine undergarment made for Siamese twins. (co-bra)
• decadent: Possessing only ten teeth. (deca-dent)
• dilate: live long (die late)
• dockyard: A physician's garden. (doc yard)
• dynamite: To take a flea out to dinner. (dine-a-mite)
• garbage: Eatables smelled backwards. (smelled-spelled)
• geometry: What the bush said when it grew up. ("Gee, I'm a tree")
• hula dance: Wild waist show. (Wild West-wild waist)
• impolite: A flaming elf. (imp-alight)
• indistinct: where one places dirty dishes (indistinct-in the sink)
• innuendoes: Italian suppositories. (in-you-end-os)
• oboe: An English tramp. (hobo)
• paradox: Two doctors. (pair of docs) OR Where one ties two boats. (Pair of docks)
• pasteurise: Too far to see. (past your eyes)
• pretzel: Edible handcuffs.
• pronoun: A noun that has lost its amateur status. (pro + noun) (From Calvin and Hobbes)
• propaganda: A gentlemanly goose. (proper gander)
• prune: A plum that has seen better days.
• quack doctor: One who "ducks" the law.
• shrewd: A rude shrew. (shrew + rude)
• shrink: An ice-skating shrew. (shrew + rink)
• vacuum cleaner: A broom with a stomach.
• wolf: A big dame hunter. One who loves life, liberty, and the happiness of pursuit. (Dame hunter-game hunter; Pursuit of happiness--happiness of pursuit)
• zebra: 25 sizes larger than an A-bra. (Z bra-zebra)

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See also

• Transpositional pun

A transpositional pun is a complicated pun format with two aspects. ...

External links

• Daffynitions
• Goofinitions