Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A pun; a play on words.
Wiktionary
- n. A pun.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A pun.
Etymologies
- Named for a character in German folk tales. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“He was most capital company, rolling out perpetual jokes and _calembour_, and bubbling over with exuberant _joie de vivre_.”
“a clumsy thing compared to the finesse of a neatly-turned French calembour.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘calembour’.
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Wordplay & Pun
wordplay, pound, conceit, clinch, joke, quibble, equivoque, double-entendre, quillet, calembour, carriwitchet, paranomasia and 90 more...
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ambrosia, inamorata, gossamer, lily-white, hummingbird, roucoulement, poppy, daisy, calypso, lunula, lamb, dove and 1526 more...
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Mollusque's miscellany
A mixture of words that I like or have commented on, along with ones parked here so they'd be listed somewhere or remind me of lists I want to make.
oranger, monographer, preoccupied, bu, bobization, coinventor, tetrapyloctomy, borgmannian, suspercollate, manhug, mancrush, obituarist and 604 more...
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Pride, erudition and masculinity overload.
egregious, popinjay, opsimath, cockscomb, oscheocoele, magniloquent, portentousness, raffish, apposite, deipnosophist, sesquipedalian, libidinous and 8 more...
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best words
kéblo, simili, déviant, drolatique, flûte, hiha, croquer, derechef, mignardise, maussade, nigaud, morose and 54 more...
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