Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A maker of puns.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who puns or is skilled in punning; a quibbler on words.
Wiktionary
- n. A person who likes to make puns.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who puns, or is skilled in, or given to, punning; a quibbler; a low wit.
WordNet 3.0
- n. someone overly fond of making puns
Etymologies
- pun + -ster (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Marino abounds in puerile conceits; but they are not far-fetched, like those of Donne and Cowley; they generally lie on the surface, and often consist of nothing more than a mere play upon words; so that, if to be a punster is to be a metaphysician, Marino is a poetical Heraclitus.”
“In Maureen Dowd's New York Times Jan. 30 puff piece " No Axe to Grind " about the departure from the White House of senior presidential adviser David Axelrod, she notes that although he is not tech savvy, "The avid punster offered a parting pun at the 8:30 a.m. meeting [in the White House] — urging everyone to 'plow forward' on a plan for genetically produced [sic] alfalfa.”
The Wall Street Journal: Making Political Hay With Genetically Modified Alfalfa
“Jesus, if the Bible is to be believed, was an inveterate punster.”
The Washington Post: IBM's Watson wins! First Jeopardy! -- next, bad puns?
“Stephen Leacock said that the inveterate punster follows conversation as a shark follows a ship.”
The Washington Post: IBM's Watson wins! First Jeopardy! -- next, bad puns?
“As an inveterate punster myself, I know the danger this poses to the human race.”
The Washington Post: IBM's Watson wins! First Jeopardy! -- next, bad puns?
“Drogo, ever the clever Dothraki punster, says that he'll give Viserys "a golden crown that men shall tremble to behold" and then coronates the would-be king by pouring molten gold over his head.”
Game of Thrones Postmortem: Harry Lloyd on Viserys' Golden Crown
“Charles Lamb, a notorious punster, explained that the pun is “a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.””
“It's all in the timing, and a good punster waits for the exact moment to be left to his own devises.”
“Creative wordplay can enhance literacy, turn a punster into a pundit and lead us back to a primal recognition of the power of the word to impact the quality of our world.”
The Wall Street Journal: The Language You Use Frames the Way You Think
“I'm sending that to my Dad, who is both a punster and a third-order Benedictine.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘punster’.
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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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WF - Word Formation Words
Classes of words and types of word formation
sniglet, protologism, portmanteau word, blend, telescope-word, frankenword, double-entendre, compound, derivative, palindrome, spoonerism, malapropism and 152 more...
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LQTM
Words that make me Laugh Quietly to Myself (its more honest) or refer to humor.
antiphrasis, lucus a non lucendo, abderian, pantagruelism, Rabelaisian, copypasta, take my wife, please, muchacha, jocoserious, lusus naturae, punster, numnuts and 9 more...
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Steroids
Nouns that end in "ster". The -er suffix (as in blaster) doesn't count.
hamster, filibuster, aster, master, mister, baluster, banister, barrister, monster, plaster, semester, bister and 56 more...
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Neologistics
Basically this is a "words about words" list with a focus on neologism generation in all its various forms.
wordplay, paronomasia, madeupical, logodaedaly, onomatopoeic, verbification, nominalization, recontextualization, spoonerism, typo recycling, sloganeer, wordsmith and 59 more...
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Knee Deep in Chic
Words, prose, bon mots, and literary styles that cause a contagious enthusiasm by its very existence. They can be muses to a story. rekindling the spark that went out. The cure-all elixir to a bla...
euphuism, quiddity, saudade, zugzwang, razbliuto, parti pris, oleaginous, crevasse, chantepleure, chiaroscuro, prestidigitation, dysphemism and 79 more...
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The Medley of Me
A jumble of words, sometimes contradictory, that add up to me. I'll probably be adding to this list for some time, because I'm a very complex individual. ;P
male, long-haired, big-eyed, writer, artist, guitarist, songsmith, talespinner, pilot, wannabe barnstormer, gypsy, cuddlesome and 209 more...
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-ster
person who is/does/creates
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spin trick ham - road game for shy huck
spinster, trickster, hamster, roadster, gamester, forster, shyster, huckster, lobster, bolster, dumpster, dragster and 15 more...
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Writers
writer, scribbler, scrawler, author, wordsmith, novelist, scriptwriter, tragedian, dramatist, dramaturge, poetaster, scribe and 27 more...
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