punster
English
Etymology
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Noun
punster (plural punsters)
- A person who makes puns.
- Synonyms: punner, paronomasiast
- 1838, The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, page 404:
- Waglings and punsters — a vile race, / Who grin and jeer in any case!
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Further reading
- Samuel Johnson (1773) "PUNSTER", in A Dictionary of the English Language, volumes II (L–Z), London: W[illiam] Strahan, for J[ohn] and P[aul] Knapton, →OCLC: "PU'NSTER. n.s. [from pun.] A quibbler; a low wit who endeavours at reputation by double meaning."