Search Details

Word: punned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Still, I left the game feeling a bit funny. I'm used to saving all of my anger for the Dodgers or another pansy L.A. team, and here I am getting horse (no pun intended) yelling about a team that plays at the RCA Dome...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: Hormonal Chanting | 12/14/1994 | See Source »

Rooting for Yale has a distinctly subversive flavor here, and that's part of its appeal. I like rooting for Yale. It is perpetually that second-or third-best alternative, that underdog (no pun intended) school with just the right amount of respectability with a difference...

Author: By Patrick S. Chung, | Title: Boola, Boola, Eli Yale! | 11/19/1994 | See Source »

Freshman Kristen Bowes would ice (no pun intended) the match in the final minute when she headed in a corner taken by freshman Emily Stauffer to provide the final score...

Author: By David S. Griffel, | Title: Women's Soccer Earns Rave Reviews in the Winds of War | 11/3/1994 | See Source »

They also engage in that most honorable and despised form of wordsmanship, the pun. The gooey remains of an ancient Egyptian are "guaca-mummy." A vampirish hospital worker is called "Nurse Feratu." Acolytes cavorting in worship to a Japanese monster are "the Mothra Graham Dance Troupe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOW BUSINESS: The Magical Mst Tour | 10/3/1994 | See Source »

...needed the pun with the alcohol," say Rob V. Ciccone '95, another of party's organizers. "It was just the O.J. motif with the free beer and drinks...

Author: By Jeffrey N. Gell and Adam M. Kleinbaum, S | Title: Students Won't Turn O.J. On (Promise) | 9/26/1994 | See Source »

Previous | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | Next