Brewer's: Pun

is the Welsh pun, equivalent; it means a word equally applicable to two things. The application should be remote and odd in order to give piquancy to the play. (See Calembourg.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
Pun and Pickpocket
Pumpernickel
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