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paronomasia
(rhetoric) A pun or play on words.
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Evβrywhere but at Norfolk, where talk of Passion far outweighs its Enactment,β indeed, the Sailorsβ paronomasia for that wretched Place, is βNo-Fuckβ.
(rhetoric) The use of puns.
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Paronomasia to the sense alludes, / When words but little varied it includes.
[β¦] he gloomily regarded his new digital watch, faintly fascinated by the onward march of the square figures which turned one into the other with insolent ease, a kind of numerical paronomasia.
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