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  • adverb In a punning manner; so as to form a pun.

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punning +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • The Romans ask punningly which is the uppermost, the Pope or Antonelli?

    The Roman Question Edmond About 1856

  • Beverages include 1/4Rye beer—punningly pronounced "quarter-rye"—a homemade brew consisting of 25% malt rye.

    Reading Between the Lines, This Is a Big Date for Corduroy Fans Sarah E. Needleman 2011

  • This is the season for beer events, but for serious beer drinkers, I'd be inclined to pay attention to Pizzeria Paradiso's punningly named OktoBEERfest.

    Lift a glass for Oktoberfest 2010

  • Tom Hollander doubles with impressively rapid costume changes, as the impotent bourgeois businessman, Chandebise, and as Poche, the hapless drunken flunky of the brothel punningly named the Coq d'Or.

    Comic Christmas Crackers Paul Levy 2010

  • In On the Power of Sound, the problem posed is, as the Argument puts it, how to unite all the sounds of the world — so dangerous in their potency — into "a scheme or system for moral interests and intellectual contemplation" (2: 323) - or what stanza XI punningly calls a "scale of moral music — to unite/Powers that survive but in the faintest dream/Of memory" (170-72, my italics).

    The 'Power of Sound' and the Great Scheme of Things: Wordsworth Listens to Wordsworth 2008

  • You might consider an approach pioneered by the computer scientist Donald Knuth and punningly dubbed "The Way of the Cross-Section" by, er, I forget whom: namely, taking a stratified sample.

    The Whole Bible? James F. McGrath 2009

  • Or, more punningly, failed to rise to the occasion.

    Archive 2008-02-01 Annemarie 2008

  • Or, more punningly, failed to rise to the occasion.

    Daring Bakers: French Bread Annemarie 2008

  • Besides a punningly perfect title, Jordan's Central Crime Zone will keep you plugged into the world of crime writing -- even when I get distracted by other genres.

    Crime Writing Digest 2006

  • In his punningly titled follow-up, a retiree confronts his wife's affair, his daughter's inappropriate man -- and a scary lesion on his hip.

    Word Perfect: Books 2007

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