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pun

 (pŭn)
n.
A play on words, sometimes on different senses of the same word and sometimes on the similar sense or sound of different words.
intr.v. punned, pun·ning, puns
To make puns or a pun.

[Origin unknown.]

pun′ning·ly adv.
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punningly

(ˈpʌnɪŋlɪ)
adv
in a punning manner
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The men continue to raise funds for charity and released a fourth collection of bawdy songs last year, punningly titled Sole Mates.
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Two images in particular recurred with some frequency in the second edition of the Kochi Biennale, tellingly and punningly titled "Whorled Explorations"--the first being da Gama's arrival in the port of Calicut as it was immortalized 400 years later in a painting by the Portuguese artist Jose Maria Veloso Salgado; the second a less literal though no less evocative image, namely that of the vortex--imagined variously in the exhibition as the universe, the void or a whirlpool.
In this respect, he paints a truer portrait of Thales' wisdom than Anaximander did: our relation to the ground of things is not one of direct access, but of a mediated approach at once disputatious and conciliatory, an approach Heraclitus punningly names [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII].