A transpositional pun is a pun format with two aspects. It involves transposing the words in a well-known phrase or saying to get a daffynition-like clever...
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Daffynition (category Puns)
Presented in the form of dictionary definitions, they are similar to transpositional puns, but often much less complex and easier to create. Under the name...
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Spoonerism Synchysis (the reverse of the chiasmus) The Throne Verse Transpositional pun Corbett and Connors, 1999. p. 58–59, 74 Baldick,2008. p. 17 Corbett...
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Anti-proverb (section Puns on a proverb)
("Absence makes the heart grow fonder".) Malapropism Paraprosdokian Transpositional pun Wellerism Tuzcu, Öznur. 2018. Anti-Proverb as a Type of Intertextual...
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Years active 1983–present Genres Relationship humor irony word play transpositional pun Subject(s) Psychology Russian-American culture race relations relationships...
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bites dog The Great Switcheroo The Old Switcheroo In Soviet Russia Transpositional pun Rickrolling Anne H. Soukhanov, ed. (1992). The American Heritage...
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